Quotes About Government

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.

If you can't protect life, then how can you protect liberty?

Siddhartha's priority was to get down to the root of the problem. Buddhism is not culturally bound. Its benefits are not limited to any particular society and have no place in government and politics. Siddhartha

the system which is in control in Argentina and most of the world is nothing less that the best democracy which money can buy, allied with drug trafficking and organized crime. The sad conclusion, then, is that the worst which this "democracy" has in store for us is corrupt government; the best it has to offer is government by millionaires.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

China is, in fact, the only country in the world to be ruled for hundreds of years, not by the nobility, nor by soldiers, nor even by the priesthood, but by scholars.

I can't be sacked from my job, because my job's Education. I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It's the only thing I do believe in. At Government College, I mix it up with trigonometry, and so on. When I'm a saddhu, I shall mix it up with something else.

We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.

The doctrine of laisser-faire will not work in the material world.

I am out here to work, mind, to hold this wretched country by force. I'm not a missionary or a Labour Member or a vague sentimental sympathetic literary man. I'm just a servant of the Government; it's the profession you wanted me to choose myself, and that's that. We're not pleasant in India, and we don't intend to be pleasant. We've something more important to do.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both." – Milton Friedman, Free to Choose

Prominent magazine editor and opinion shaper Albert Shaw noted that bad roads "are so disastrously expensive that only a very rich country, like the United States, can afford them.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism." [ Address to National Press Club in Washington DC , as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is a representative form of government, and our legislatures are those instruments of government elected directly by and directly representative of the people, the right to elect legislators in a free and unimpaired fashion is a bedrock of our political system.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

during the 8 years of his second term as prime minister, by supplying the unemployed with menial state-paid seasonal summer jobs designed by local government which took only a few hours a day, Orbán had lowered the unemployment rate from 11.4 to 3.8 per cent. This provided him with thousands of loyal supporters whose daily bread depended on his reelection.

No less fascinating is the devout belief that the Mormon Church will rescue the United States from destruction by taking over the reins of government during a coming great crisis and that only then can Jesus Christ return to this earth-accompanied, of course, by Joseph Smith.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!

In the face of such evil, the federal government continued to slow-walk substantive reform, and white people continued to be white people.