Quotes About Government

amthus following the methodological claim asserted by Melvin L. DeFleur and Margaret H. DeFleur, who in their study Learning to Hate Americans aim to establish what they call a "dual pattern" that differentiates clearly between "attitude objects" pertaining to the United States government and its policies, on the one hand, and the American people, on the other.

The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.

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1790: Mayer Amschel Rothschild states, "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

1838: On January 8th President Jackson pays off the final instalment of the national debt, which had been created by allowing the banks to issue currency for government bonds, rather than simply issuing treasury notes without such debt. He becomes the only President to ever pay off the debt.

Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State goes on to state, "I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution taking from the Federal Government their power of borrowing.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?)

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

This shortfall can be traced to the law of supply and demand, and to a mix of government inaction when action was needed, and intervention when it would have been better to leave well enough alone.

The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an imperial system and expanding to vast proportions during the war, largely remained in place into the Cold War.

By allocating so much public sector work to private companies, the Bush administration created a condition in which the nature and practice of government activities could be hidden under the cloak of corporate privacy. This severely limits both financial and political accountability.

The arms trade – an intricate web of networks between the formal and shadow worlds, between government, commerce and criminality – often makes us poorer, not richer, less not more safe, and governed not in our own interests but for the benefit of a small, self-serving elite, seemingly above the law, protected by the secrecy of national security and accountable to no one.

The whistle-blower handed over bank records, 'which were the key to revealing an entire global money laundering system, an enormous worldwide network of secret cash payments amounting to literally billions of dollars that had gone on for years with the connivance of the British government'.62

The resulting fractious, at times even dysfunctional, relationship between the top brass and civilian political leaders is one of Washington's dirty little secrets—recognized by all of the inside players, concealed from an electorate that might ask discomfiting questions about who is actually in charge.

One cannot understand a political "system" detached from its societal context