Quotes About Government

was like trying to find an honest man in Congress.

the service skills of a government employee one week from retirement.

told you, Charlie, the FSB is a more refined version of the KGB.

Que dit Keanu Reeves dans Portrait craché d'une famille modèle, déjà ? « Il vous faut un permis pour acheter un chien, il vous en faut un pour conduire une voiture. Nom de Dieu, même pour attraper un poisson, il vous faut un permis ! »

The government often does too much. Many government programs and policies designed to help the private sector actually impede its development. The major reasons are the low level of ability or competence in most government institutions, the high level of corruption, and the influence of special interest groups.

Unfortunately, government policies intended to help the private sector are too often similar to the attempts of the medical profession of 200 years ago to improve health. In those days, a visit to the doctor or hospital was likely to make you worse rather than better. Governments would be wise to follow the oath taken by physicians, which is "First, do no harm."

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. Everything that makes man's life worthwhile- family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head- all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government that does not heed the demands of its people.

Cuando los israelíes no construían casas en suelo palestino, se dedicaban a demoler casas palestinas. Entre la firma del acuerdo de Oslo en 1993 y marzo de 1998, los bulldozers israelíes echaron abajo 629 casas palestinas, 535 en Cisjordania y 94 en Jerusalén, más de una tercera parte bajo un gobierno laborista israelí, y el resto bajo el mandato de Likud.

gobierno laborista de Ehud Barak —anunciado como la administración más liberal y pro palestina desde Rabin— colonizó Cisjordania a un ritmo diez veces superior al del gobierno Likud de Netanyahu.

El gobierno eligió el 24 de abril de 1915 —fecha en que a partir de entonces se conmemora el genocidio armenio— para detener y asesinar a los principales intelectuales armenios de Constantinopla. Y continuaron el pogromo con la destrucción general y sistemática de la raza armenia en Turquía.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

It will probably will not be long until the churches will divide as sharply upon political, as upon theological questions; and when that day comes, if there are not liberals enough to hold the balance of power, this Government will be destroyed. The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church. Wherever the Bible and sword are in partnership, man is a slave. 1879

The brutal intrusion of officialdom into private devastation.

Under the government of Nature, what you call punishments and rewards are simply consequences. Nature does not punish. Nature does not reward. Nature has no purpose.

Radical individualism, radical egalitarianism, omnipresent and omni-incompetent government, the politicization of the culture, and the battle for advantages through politics shatter a society into fragments of isolated individuals and angry groups.

President Clinton at one point proposed raising taxes on the rich although it did not appear that it would increase the tax revenues received from them. A substantial proportion of the public said they favored higher taxes on high-income earners even if that did not increase the total taxes such people paid. The effect would not be to help anyone else but merely to pull down the better off.

There are indications that the Constitution did not contemplate that the title Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy will constitute him also Commander-in-Chief of the country, its industries and its inhabitants. He has no monopoly of "war powers," whatever they are.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income

A police state is a country run by criminals

The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so doing, it reveals the fraud at the heart of its impudent claims and gives sufficient proof that it is not a genuine protector, but a mere protection racket.

Like all who inherit the Lockean tradition, Mises believed that a strong but limited government, far from suffocating its citizens, allows them to be productive and free.

Barcelona has always been more a city of capital and labor than of nobility and commoners; its democratic roots are old and run very deep. Its medieval charter of citizens' rights, the Usatges, grew from a nucleus which antedated the Magna Carta by more than a hundred years. Its government, the Consell de Cent (Council of One Hundred), had been the oldest protodemocratic political body in Spain.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public