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Quotes About Government

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There will be a new regulatory environment and each government will carry it out in different ways, some as partners to business, others as adversaries.
~ Ram Charan
It is imperative, too, that every strategy takes into account an analysis and understanding of the global financial and economic environment marked by slower growth, increased competition, altered consumer behavior, and more government intervention.
~ Ram Charan
However, by the end of 1947, P.C. Joshi found his line challenged by the radical faction of the CPI. They claimed that the freedom that India had obtained was false—'Ye Azaadi Jhooti Hai', the slogan went—and asked that the party declare an all-out war against the Government of India.
~ Ramachandra Guha
This took the shape of government announcements paid for by the Directorate of Audio-Visual Publicity (DAVP). While 'liberally granting advertisements to so-called "friendly" periodicals', the DAVP withdrew their favours from those deemed critical of the government.
~ Ramachandra Guha
Ambedkar knew that while there were enough influential Hindus – such as Jawaharlal Nehru – who were behind progressive legislation, among the Muslims the liberal contingent was nowhere near as strong. The government, he said, could not be so 'foolish' as 'not to realize the sentiments of different communities in this country'. That was why the code at present dealt only with the Hindus.
~ Ramachandra Guha
In March 1973 the government appointed a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. In the past, once a chief justice retired, the most senior member of the bench took his place. This time, Justice A. N. Ray was elevated while three colleagues were ahead of him. The choice was politically motivated, a manifestation of the government's increasing desire to control the judiciary.
~ Ramachandra Guha
They assured him that the president was bound to act with 'the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers and cannot act independently of that advice'. As they saw it, the position of the president of India was even weaker than that of the British monarch.
~ Ramachandra Guha
The first such avenue was education. After Independence there was a great expansion in school and college education. By law, a certain portion of seats were reserved for the Scheduled Castes. By policy, different state governments endowed scholarships for children from disadvantaged homes.
~ Ramachandra Guha
In March 1950 Sukumar Sen was appointed chief election commissioner.
~ Ramachandra Guha
The Congress chief minister of Haryana, Bansi Lal, gave Sanjay's Maruti car company 300 acres of land at a giveaway price.
~ Ramachandra Guha
Instrument of Accession
~ Ramachandra Guha
What is a democratic Central Government to do with a Communist state?' he asked. 'What would the American administration do if California or Wisconsin suddenly – and I admit, somewhat unexpectedly – turned Communist? And again, how is a Communist government itself to behave with democratic overlords sitting on its neck?
~ Ramachandra Guha
From his home in New Delhi, Atal Behari Vajpayee spoke by satellite to tribals in Kashipur, whose kinsmen had died after eating mango kernel because their crops had failed. 'It is extremely unfortunate that in today's world people die by eating poisonous material', said the head of a government that could speak to its citizens by videophone, yet not supply them with wholesome food.
~ Ramachandra Guha
Honest tax payers salute the Delhi couple who refused to obey the fake corona protocol of mask, but idiots and bootlicker of Govt are blaming that couple.
~ Rameshh Shanegar
in a surveillance state it was vital to reserve the ability to turn a blind eye to certain people at certain times.
~ Ramez Naam
When the CIA is the place you turn to for moral clarity, Nakamura thought, you might have a problem.
~ Ramez Naam
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
~ Rand Paul
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
~ Rand Paul
I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
~ Rand Paul
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
~ Rand Paul
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
~ Rand Paul
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
~ Rand Paul
Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
~ Rand Paul