Quotes About Government

Government reporters may cover City Hall. Education reporters may write about schools and school boards. Science writers may report on asteroids one day, HIV vaccine experiments the next, sonar technology the next, a universe without boundaries.

That same January the city government had released a report declaring that thanks to ill-informed, corrupt, and occasionally drunken coroners, murderers in New York were escaping justice in record numbers.

There are ways of disagreeing with the policies of the Israeli government without sounding antisemitic. And blaming all Jews for something wrong that Israel has done—that's antisemitic.

When the State silences freedom of assembly and freedom to dissent, it silences the people it is sworn to protect.

Such a development endangered the entire Indian policy of the government, which aimed to eradicate everything Indian among the tribes and make them over into white men.

Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. "I think you had better put the Indians on wheels," he said sardonically, "and you can run them about whenever you wish.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

There is nothing at which government is more adept or diligent than relieving people of their money.

In all practically relevant cases, governments—or more accurately the individuals involved in governmental process—do possess the power to coerce.

It's symmetrical, left and right, because both the Dems and the GOP, Labour and the Tories, want the government to be really, really big, without regard to free choice, and to follow majoritarian opinion really, really closely, without regard to minorities. We Modern True Liberals stand against them both, opposing the tyranny of the majority on either side of the usual spectrum. Hip, hip, hurray for Smith, Wollstonecraft, Thoreau, Bastiat, Mill and their descendants.

the liberal plan," as old Adam Smith wrote in 1776, "of [social] equality, [economic] liberty and [legal] justice," with a modest, restrained government giving real help to the poor.1 True modern liberalism.

Modern liberals do not sit anywhere along the conventional one-dimensional right-left spectrum of governmental coercion.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Chinese were initially excluded from the draft; politicians on the west coast convinced the federal government that the risk of allowing the Chinese to go to war for the country was that they might then demand the right to vote.

La transparencia avanza pero la opacidad también.

México ha transitado del presidencialismo omnipotente a la presidencia incompetente.

Que el PRI creó instituciones pero también pervirtió sus objetivos.

Gracias al PRI la impunidad se volvió una costumbre.

They fought to smile through the lines and the mud and the long hours, dancing under the stars and under the watchful eyes of their government, an Orwellian backdrop for a Rockwellian world.

A dictator decrees," she later wrote, "a president asks Congress for permission to organize.

On occasion, people who tried to write family members living at Site X by addressing the letters to "Oak Ridge" got those letters returned to sender with a note reading simply: "There is no such place as Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Q: How many people are working in Oak Ridge? A: About half of them.