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Quotes About Government

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, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
~ Robert Ingersoll
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~ Robert J. Morgan
Reconciliation had touched her heart, and she did not seek revenge. She only wanted an acknowledgment on the part of the new government of what the apartheid government had done.
~ Robert J. Schreiter
Apple bought Siri from its creator, SRI (Stanford Research Institute) International, which had developed it with government funding from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) between 2003 and 2008.
~ Robert J. Shiller
The federal government operates pretty much in line with the quip, "If it moves, tax it; if you can't tax it, control it; if you can't control it, give it a million dollars.
~ Robert J. Shiller
As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.
~ Robert Joseph Bob Dole
Why is almost the whole earth governed by monarchs?" Voltaire asked. "The honest answer is because men are rarely worthy of governing themselves.… Almost nothing great has ever been done in the world except by the genius and firmness of a single man combating the prejudices of the multitude.… I do not like government by the rabble.
~ Robert K. Massie
In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
~ Robert K. Massie
Today, large numbers of citizens throughout the West are angry that the good life is being stolen from them. They are not quite sure whom to be angry at—immigrants, corporations, the government, politically correct liberals, the rich, the poor?
~ Robert Kuttner
The threat to democracy is increasingly within the West.
~ Robert Kuttner
The ideological gap between the parties has indeed widened, and party discipline has increased. But the source of the widening gap is that Democrats have moved moderately to the center, while Republicans have moved to the far right. And the main source of deadlock is that Republicans have decided to refuse to compromise with Democrats, the better to destroy both Democrats and effective government.
~ Robert Kuttner
In the disconnect between grievance and remedy, there is an astonishing muddle. Angry people vote for a seeming populist, and they get an autocrat whose policies and appointees make the economy even more tilted to the very rich. Trump's populism turns out to be a blend of spite, entertainment, jingoism—and alliance with corporations when it comes to actual policy. Yet in the absence of government policies to lean against the predations of the market, Trumpism fills the vacuum.
~ Robert Kuttner
I am going to Sky Talk library," Soother told Soother's-Pride. "I understand that a new book about one of the early human rulers has been sent down by the humans on one of the alternate communication channels. I want to study it carefully for new ideas. I hope that the ideas on government by the human Napoleon will prove to be as interesting as those of Machiavelli were.
~ Robert L. Forward
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
~ Robert L. Heilbroner
The House of Saud had executed Juhayman. Now they were making his program government policy.
~ Robert Lacey
Chris was vaguely troubled by the revelation that one of America's closest allies was being deceived by the U.S. Government, but he let the thought slip away and accepted an invitation to go to lunch with some of the other TRW employees assigned to Rhyolite. The
~ Robert Lindsey
In Russia we have a proverb--it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
~ Robert Littell
Organized crime?" I blinked. "It's like government, kid, " Aahz supplied. "Only more effective.
~ Robert Lynn Asprin
The Department of Defense is the largest, most complex organization on the planet: three million people, civilian and military, with a budget, the last year I was there, of over $700 billion.
~ Robert M. Gates
I wanted to come right out of my chair at the witness table and scream, You guys have been in business for over two hundred years and can't pass routine legislation. How can you be so impatient with a bunch of parliamentarians who've been at it a year after four thousand years of dictatorship?
~ Robert M. Gates
I think all men recognize that in time of war the citizen must surrender some rights for the common good which he is entitled to enjoy in time of peace. But, sir, the right to control their own government according to constitutional forms is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war.
~ Robert M. La Follette Sr.
Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a large scale
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
~ Robert McChesney
Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.
~ Robert McKee