Quotes About Government

who want to run as MPs?' Janine said, clarifying her shorthand. 'And the current MP for this area suddenly announced that he is retiring next year, and

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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending ' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia in 1990s. "that is the dilemma

The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of the government to dispose of the possessions of its citizens by means of its monetary policy and thus serves as the solid foundation of economic liberty within each country and of free trade between one country and another.

Individual guarantees stated in writing in the constitution are of no use to a nation if it is not the people, but a third party, whether government or trade-union, that fixes prices and wages

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

Quando c'erano i Viceré, i nostri erano Viceré; adesso che abbiamo il parlamento, lo zio è deputato!

Come credeva alla iettatura, era incrollabile nell'opinione che il colera fosse un malefizio, un espediente di governo inteso a sfollare le popolazioni, a incutere un salutare timore nei superstiti. Dinanzi allo zio duca, sapendolo dell'opinione contraria, più «progressista», cioè che la peste venisse per correnti atmosferiche, taceva prudentemente; ma con Fersa si sbottonava, derideva le quarantene e tutti gli altri amminnicoli fatti per darla a bere ai gonzi.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism

Far from the near sanctification of military service common in today´s United States, the Americans of 1790 regarded a standing army virtually by definition as the coercive arm of oppressive government, owing loyalty not to the public but to kings and dictators.--

To make matters worse, it was clear that small-scale subsistence farming had, sadly, become extremely difficult to maintain in a modern economy. Many of the MST settlements depended on government subsidies to survive. They could wave red Che Guevara flags and rage against the unfairness of global capitalism until they turned hoarse, but that was the reality we all had to live in.

The Left did not regard JK favorably, given his efforts to strengthen a free market economy with participation of foreign capital. Nor was he much admired by the academy that viewed with suspicion his flamboyant democratic attitude, which usually led him to reconcile conflicting forces. My father was a federal deputy at that time, a member of the coalition of parties that supported the government.

was not an economist. So, in thinking about how to solve the problem, I decided to start with the big picture. The root cause of inflation in Brazil was really very simple: The government spent more than it earned. When the budget turned up a big deficit every year, as it inevitably did, the government printed more money to cover the difference. Any grade-school student knows, however, that you can't just print endless amounts of cash without having something tangible to back it up.

un Estado no puede durar como Estado de Derecho si no se reconocen valores absolutos previos al Estado.

Es que estos cerdos del gobierno no son capaces de asfaltar una carretera tan esencial, que corta por en medio mi vida?

Afuera Colombia roba y mata, adentro se hace la Ley. Lo uno es consecuencia de lo otro, es el eco.