Quotes About Government

In the early years of my work in this field, I observed as an elite crew of law professors and media experts, State Department officials, and corporate executives sought solutions that centered free expression issues that aligned, almost perfectly, with the goals of the US government.

The third conclusion I've made is: if governments are collaborating, so must we. When it comes to expression, one thing remains certain: no one will moderate the speech of governments or their officials. Sure, Twitter will fact-check Trump, and Facebook will boot members of foreign governments (and maybe someday even the president of the United States), but in the grand scheme of things, we might be watching the watchers, but no citizen has the power to silence them.

Facebook, on the other hand, meets regularly with NGOs and other stakeholders, but remains mum about which ones. The company's policy team is also deeply susceptible to government pressure, and, according to more than a half-dozen individuals that I spoke to, it will often speak openly about it to NGOs when meeting about specific policies.

Although I am certain, for example, that the US government should not dictate to companies who is a terrorist, and that widespread bans on women's partial nudity are discriminatory and harmful to the feminist cause, I still struggle to find the right answer to what we should do about suspected bots, or brigading, or how we should handle hateful speech that doesn't quite reach the level of incitement.

their hatred for and opposition to the Iranian government so great as to throw all moral conviction out the window.

As a member of the Global Network Initiative, Microsoft had committed to "protect and advance user rights to freedom of expression and privacy, including when faced with government demands for censorship." Specifically, member companies were supposed to work to "avoid or minimize the impact of government restrictions on freedom of expression.

I happen to know that the State Department furnished the money for my son to return back to the United States,

No government agency saw Lee Harvey Oswald as a danger.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

No mention is made in government records of man-eaters prior to the year 1905 and it would appear that until the advent of the Champawat tiger and the Panar leopard, man-eaters were unknown in Kumaon. When

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory.

We curse the US government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaver. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance." (from the journals of Margaret Kelly)

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.