Quotes About Government

the incredible inventiveness of the American people, a natural by-product of three factors: an open-source learning tradition; a heterogeneous, mixed-age society which didn't exclude the young from full participation; and a government presence without heavy-handedness.

It was from Washington's bribes, subsidies, and cajolings that institutional schooling spread, not from the merit of the idea.

Global economics does not speak to the public need for meaningful work, affordable housing, fulfilling education, adequate medical care, a clean environment, honest and accountable government, social and cultural renewal, or simple justice. All global ambitions are based on a definition of productivity and the good life

I can't believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children.

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.

But since the mid-1990s, pharmaceutical giants have aggressively marketed painkillers to a wider group of patients with long-term or milder forms of pain. At the same time, the federal government has approved one massive increase after another in the quantities manufactured, even as its own officials declared prescription drug abuse a mounting epidemic.

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

the more bureaucrats there are, the more laws are needed to keep them fed. I

One of my more sharp-tongued respondents, dryly observed, when asked if nationalization of railroads was being considered, "Yes sure its being considered. There's hardly a bad idea that isn't being considered. If you think of a bad idea that isn't being considered, call me up collect. I'd like to hear about it. - pg 129

biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom's annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have."250–MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

With the film V for Vendetta, whose imagery borrows heavily from Nazi Germany's Third Reich and George Orwell's 1984, we come full circle. The corporate state in Vconducts mass surveillance on its citizens, helped along by closed-circuit televisions. Also, London is under yellow-coded curfew alerts, similar to the American government's color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System.

A mere month and a half after 9/11, the structure for a new governmental scheme was in place. The

Ramrodded through Congress by the Bush administration, the bill was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives

Equally important, the words of the First Amendment assume, and even insist on, a citizenry that not only has access to whatever information the government may have on them but control over the information as well.

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution empowers Congress and makes the United States a democracy by guaranteeing that the people's representatives will know what governmental agencies are

decisions. A July 2002 New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that 45 percent of Americans thought "other people are really running the government."20 Following

ThinThread, a pilot program developed by the NSA in the late 1990s, would have enabled the NSA to collect, analyze, and secure massive quantities of communications data while protecting personal privacy in the process. ThinThread combined four advanced

identification card (dubbed "an internal passport" by its critics) has been hailed by many as a necessity in America's fight against terrorism. What once was seen as a tool for controlling immigration and zeroing

As a result, the Department of Defense now spends billions of dollars on counternarcotic crusades, and American troops have become an adjunct to many local police forces in the country.

FEMA essentially has the power to put the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

which is run by unelected officials, would become the most powerful governmental authority.