Quotes About Government

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

Who I am really doesn't matter at all. If I'm the worst person in the world, you can hate me and move on. What really matters here are the issues. What really matters here is the kind of government we want, the kind of Internet we want, the kind of relationship between people and societies.

All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them.

The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.

All of these charges by McCarthy were a way of getting the Democrats out of power. The Democrats had controlled the government for 20 years, and the New Deal had helped a lot of people. So Republicans turned instead to saying that the Democrats were soft on communism, which was ridiculous.

No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

It's okay to take the food out of the mouths of the citizens from a government that's plotting an attack directly on American soil.

At present, it's not really clear who is in charge of protecting the nation from solar and nuclear EMP.

The Indian government has been taking some lead in several environmental initiatives, like the international solar alliance, many green initiatives in schools, lots of river reservations projects.

If you have a look a few years back down the line then you will find that the previous government had made a big announcement related to the solar mission but nothing was implemented at the ground level. But after the Paris agreement, PM Modi took its leadership in his hand which resulted into International Solar Alliance.

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.

As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the content of all iPhone apps available for download on devices sold in mainland China.

When Ronald Reagan's administration was exposed for having illegally sold arms to Iran to raise money covertly for the Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, Reagan acknowledged that the evidence was damning - yet defended the principle behind the scheme.

If I became president now I would immediately pass a law that makes every citizen a policeman or a soldier.

Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.

Soldiers don't have a lobby or a political party.

I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'

It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.

I always want to make sure we protect our soldiers' pay if there is a shutdown of any kind.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.