Quotes About Government

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.

We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

Haven't you noticed that every time the government f-ks up McDonald's has a new sandwich?

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.