Quotes About Government

If I was a private individual, I'd be more careful; but being as I'm a government, I'm privileged to make a God-damned fool of myself in any way I choose, especially by spending a lot more money than I've got or ever will have, and promising to do things that I ain't got a chance of doing.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.

Redeemer governments write new constitutions; they put up monuments to Confederates and terrorists. In 1891, the Redeemer government of New Orleans erects a monument to the victors of the Battle of Liberty Place: the White League. In 1920, a committee erects a monument to honor the three white men who died in the attack on the Grant Parish courthouse as "heroes . . . fighting for White Supremacy.

The government, Lincoln suggests, should intervene to protect individuals from other individuals—to redress the natural consequences of inequalities of power.

While death isn't a sure thing anymore, taxes still are.

All of the stray asbestos fibers would certainly have been removed with meticulous care. The contractors were, after all, government employees. That thought sparked uneasiness in him all over again.

You have death certificates? Death certificates? This is Afghanistan we're talking about. Most people there don't have birth certificates.

If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is real, and that will make it real. We elect a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. That was the whole idea in the first place. As they used to tell us in school. And it's a good idea, if we could make it real. It might never have been real, up till now. But now's the time. Now's the time, people!

It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.

At this point we need them to feel disliked and outnumbered. Hell, mass numbers of people in the streets are about the only thing that scare governments, if you ask me.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. So that the national governments in trying to restrain the transnats were like the Lilliputians trying to tie down Gulliver.

We pretend that democracy is real, and

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government

lawmakers are often lawyers themselves, notoriously bereft of ideas.

Because when the crash comes, the government needs to nationalize the banks. No more bailing them out and forcing taxpayers to foot the bill. You

policymakers think a world police state for a few decades or so

The state monopoly on violence had probably been a good idea while it lasted, but no one could believe it would ever come back.

If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is real, and that will make it real.

I prefer to call it fiscal decapitation.

You know a constitution is kind of like a blueprint," Charlotte said thoughtfully. "Getting a real working government out of it is the true act of construction.

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Over the years I have felt that both the IAS and IPS have developed a kind of feudal class consciousness that does not go well with the service to the people that India needs. Their initial idealism begins to diminish within a few years of service and they gradually become part of the furniture.

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