Quotes About Government

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

the regional governments can't raise taxes. The source of revenue would simply leave for another region. In fact, the effect of decentralization without guaranteed funding and national or multinational standards is a competition between regions for the lowest possible tax rates. (III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

Given the tendency of nations, particularly great powers, to engage in war unjustifiably and to set in motion the apparatus of the state to suppress dissent, the respect accorded to pacifism serves the purpose of alerting citizens to the wrongs that governments are prone to commit in their name.

IN the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt….

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Sri Lanka's problems were caused by too much democracy.

It doesn't matter. As long as the government pretends it's a secret, the pretense, no matter how thin, gives it certain advantages. Or it thinks it does. Politics is weird that way.

I like it because their view of government is essentially the same as mine, and I like it because they're regular people who, but for the shock of Obama's radicalism, probably would not have gotten active in politics.

I believe that the leaders of both political parties must try to work through our differences. And I believe we will be able to work through differences. I reassured the House and Senate leaders that I intend to work with the new Congress in a bipartisan way to address issues confronting this country.

I've heard over and over that people don't vote on the basis of foreign policy.

There were a lot of people who were Reaganauts going in, as there are always people who are conservatives going in. But they don't act like conservatives after they get there. There is skill to maneuvering the bureaucracy. And I think one argument I could make would be, I've never run for office, I'm not a conventional politician, that's for sure, but I have been in government, and I know how it works. I have actually gotten things done in the government.

History without political science has no fruit. Political science without history has no root.

Commerce in itself may favour peace, but when commerce is artificially shut out by a decree of Government from some promising territory, then commerce just as naturally favours war.

Coupled with efficient systems of tithing and supply conducted in the name of pharaoh, the valley's prodigious fertility had promoted such colossal surpluses within the state that, after some four centuries, the government was able to conceive and undertake the construction of four colossal pyramids and their attendant temples.

And in these accords, the bad government said it was going to respect the rights of the Indian peoples of Mexico and their cultures and that they would put it into a law in the constitution. But of course after we signed these accords, the bad government forgot all about them. Instead the government attacked the Indians to set back their struggle on December 22, 1997. That was the date the Zedillo ordered 45 men, women, old people, and children murdered in the town in Chiapas called Acteal.

Decades of PRI despotism purposefully made sure that the poor stayed poor, so that they would be dependent on the mal gobierno and vote to keep the Perfect Dictatorship in power year after year.

Inhabited by an endless stream of mountebanks, bigots, thieves, embezzlers, and bribe-takers, it would be challenging to violate the dignity of Mexico's legislatures.

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.