Quotes About Government

Many SWAT teams are essentially accountable to no one. These independent SWAT groups claim that although they are funded by the taxpayers, they have incorporated and therefore, as private corporations, they are exempt from opening their records to the public.

But when it comes to foreign policy and particularly issues involving the corporations, the banks, or the military, there is no difference between the two parties.

ONE ALL-TOO-COMMON RESPONSE TO BOTH UNWARRANTED SURVEILLANCE and the growing police state goes as follows: "If you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

Washington was then president of the United States, and Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the young nation and the center of its federal government.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

In the U.S., whichever party was in power wasn't interested in support for public health. Public health never competed well for resources in either the House or the Senate. Countries were like people: they didn't value health until they lost it. And then once they got it back, they returned to their old complacency.

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I dont believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.

Whereas classical liberals seek maximum freedom from government, neoliberal individuals are perpetually responsive to the state's engineering of their environment. In the former, government is idealized to the extent that it stays out of people's lives, thereby maximizing individual choice; in the latter, the state creates the conditions that enable people to choose to behave in ways it has determined are best for the collective good

Alexis de Tocqueville, observing that "there was hardly a political question in the United States that did not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."1

State legislative and administrative bodies are not field offices of the national bureaucracy," she wrote. A quarter century later, her view was generally that of the majority.

We have watched our educational system begin to fray because we have taken weapons for granted and preferred a strong military to an educated population.

The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda carried little weight with an idle aristocracy.

We have the best congressmen that money can buy.

Child sexual abuse teaches us lessons about power- who has it and who doesn't. These lessons, experienced on a bodily level, transfer into the deepest levels of our conscious and subconscious being, and correspond with other oppressive systems. Widespread child sexual abuse supports a racist, sexist, classist and ableist society that attempts to train citizens into docility and unthinking acceptance of whatever the government and big business deem fit to hand out.

These people could not be bailed out, of course, because the free market was free. Of course, at times of financial crisis the Government did, in fact, bail out the major institutions of the free market, but this did not in any way undermine the fundamental notion that the market must be free and this bailing out could, of course, not be extended to individuals within the free market. Some people are, alas, not intellectually capable of understanding arguments about such complex things.

The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that.

The goal of government, you see," and the Arch Lector prodded at the air with his bony forefinger, "is to load the unhappiness onto those least able to make you suffer for it.