Quotes About Government

Nuestras insignificantes debilidades se acumulan y multiplican, y se convierten en grandes males de Estado.

They adopt a single axiom: government is bad, immigration is bad, capitalism is bad, patriarchy is bad. Then they filter and screen their experiences and insist ever more narrowly that everything can be explained by that axiom.

This kind of oversimplification and falsification is particularly typical of ideologues. They adopt a single axiom: government is bad, immigration is bad, capitalism is bad, patriarchy is bad. Then they filter and screen their experiences and insist ever more narrowly that everything can be explained by that axiom. They believe, narcissistically, underneath all that bad theory, that the world could be put right, if only they held the controls.

Democracy is a mess—but it kind of works.

if your government isn't wasteful, you're spending too much time fighting government waste.

The average American thinks there are plenty of non-worthwhile federal programs that are wasting our money and is ready and willing to put them on the chopping block to make ends meet. The problem is, there's no consensus on which programs are the worthless ones.

No opina usted que el uso de guardaespaldas es indicio de que hay algo podrido en el gobierno?

Estos burócratas quincenales, pensé, no piensan más que en cerrar expedientes.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

impuesta la razón de Estado, a un montaje se le suma otro y, para satisfacer al presidente, el gobierno mexicano utiliza todo su poder contra una sola familia.

a nadie parece importarle que la AFI, la Policía Federal y la PGR hayan mentido una y otra vez o que hayan tramado esa argamasa de verdades y ficciones que hemos llamado el montaje

En general, el político es político precisamente porque es torpe.

Federación es unión de soberanías independientes, para formar entre ellas un Estado, que reconocía esas soberanías previas.

no volver a la vetusta y agotada democracia de la alternancia, sino superar ese concepto y sustituirlo por otro más amplio, de Estado y de nación, en el que cupieran todas las regiones y clases sociales.

I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.

Mga mamamayan din ang mga bumubuo ng gobyerno at sila ang higit na nakapag-aral.' 'Ngunit tulad po ng ibang tao, nagkakamali kaya hindi dapat maging bingi sa kuro-kuro ng iba.

Nasa isip ng lahat na ang gobyerno, bilang isang institusyong likha ng tao, ay nangangailangan ng tulong ng lahat, nangangailangan ito ng magpapakita at magpapaalam sa mga tunay na pangyayari.

Religion, in refusing to degrade you, has placed in doubt the crime imputed to you; the government, in surrounding your case with mystery and shadow, gives reason for belief in some error, committed in fatal moments; and all the Philippines, in venerating your memory and calling you martyrs, in no way acknowledges your guilt.

Puedo conceder que el Gobierno desconozca al pueblo, pero creo que el pueblo conoce menos al Gobierno. Hay funcionarios inútiles, malos, si usted quiere, pero también los hay buenos y si éstos no pueden nada hacer, es porque se encuentran con una masa inerte: la población que toma poca participación en las cosas que le atañen.

So much power places in human hands, the hands of ignorant and willful men, withoutm oral training, without proven honesty, is a weapon placed in the hands of a madman let loose in an unarmed crowd. I admit, and I want to believe like you, that the Government needs this strong right arm, but it should choose it well, from among the most worthy, and since it prefers to confer authority on itself rather than receive it from the people, let it at least show that it knows how to do so.

Meanwhile, they who were so carelessly disposing of people's fates, he who commanded the legal murders, he who violated justice and made use of the law to maintain himself by force, slept in peace.

The Government does not plan a better future; it is only an arm, the convent is the head. Because of the inertia with which it allows itself to be dragged from failure to failure, it becomes a shadow, loses its identity, and, weak and incapable, entrusts everything to selfish interest.

Los Pueblos tienen los Gobiernos que se merecen.

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.