Quotes About Government

Such lawsuits, known as "Bivens suits," are an essential way to enforce the Constitution and hold federal officers liable, especially since the U.S. government has sovereign immunity and generally cannot be sued for monetary damages.

subsequent in-court identification by that witness also is inadmissible unless the government can demonstrate with clear and convincing evidence that the in-court identification was based on the observations of the accused independent of the prior lineup identification.

The Court explicitly rejected the argument that the government had to show that the consent to a search had to involve a person's "knowing" waiver of his or her rights.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit later applied this notion to say that government can monitor the email addresses a person sends to or receives from, or a list of the websites a person visits, without needing

it ruled that people have a lower expectation of privacy with motor vehicles, and that cars are regulated by the government. In Cady v. Dombrowski

In other words, a person who has been harmed by an illegal government action cannot sue for an injunction to halt the practice unless the individual can demonstrate that he or she is personally likely to suffer that specific injury again.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

There is no surer sign of a society in decline than one that builds prisons faster than schools, as happens in many American states. In

Policy analysis is a social and political activity.

Americans had mastered technology and the scientist would continue to be a hero for some time. But the real decisions, the real power would lie with those who understood politics.

The world is no longer man's theatre. Man has been made into a helpless spectator. The two evil forces he has created- science and the state- have combined into one monstrous body. We're at the mercy of our monster...

Prayer is subversive activity. It involves a more or less open act of defiance against any claim by the current regime.... [As we pray,] slowly but surely, not culture, not family, not government, not job, not even the tyrannous self can stand against the quiet power and creative influence of God's sovereignty.

The hunger problem is not going to be solved by government or by industry but in church, among Christians who learn a different way to pursue happiness.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Attitudes toward the state easily translate into attitudes toward vaccination, in part because the body is such a ready metaphor for the nation.

Get the Jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life of the community. Get the Jews out of education and they cannot pervert the minds of the young to their subversive doctrines. Get the Jews out of government and they cannot betray the nation.

From the Byzantines, Pound derived his non-violent formula for controlling the Jews. "The answer to the Jewish problem is simple," he said. "Keep them out of banking, out of education, out of government.

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

All of us, gay and non-gay, who share the visions of America as a nation that believes that all people have the right to be both different and equal, and that without real and sufficient justification, government may not compel people to give up their differences in order to be treated equally...

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

Just because Nelson has been released doesn't mean the government has done us any favors. We have nothing to be grateful for. The government destroyed our country, destroyed our people. If anybody needs amnesty, it is the government.

It's common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released.