Quotes About Government

What exactly was the role of the U.S. government in the coup that overthrew Ngo Dinh Diem?" Trumbull stared for a moment at Foley's rigid back. Then he said to Patchen, "Tell him." "I think you already know, Paul," Patchen said. "In simple terms, we countenanced it. We knew it was being planned. We offered advice. We provided support. We encouraged the plot. We welcomed the results.

And because my employers agree with me, and they're the government, you're outvoted.

Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms of violence. But I had fallen among pirates and life insurance underwriters.

It's almost as if Congress has no idea that a giant occult power struggle for control of the US government is in progress Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or perhaps it's over already, and a ruthless media clamp-down by tongue-eating mind control parasites is the only thing keeping the world from learning about the takeover of DC by gibbering alien nightmares.

America is the place where you cannot kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can kill government in America is by making the men and women of America forget how to govern. —Woodrow Wilson, 1919

Viewed in the right light, a little sprinkle of free market pixie dust can turn the drabbest of public sector services (sewerage, for example) into a rainbow-hued profit unicorn.

Revolutions (she'd long since learned) ran on committees just like any other government, once you got past the screaming-and-shooting stage.

The idiot child they've placed on the throne does not impress with his acumen.

and the brain-dead music industry copyright nazis are campaigning for a law to make it mandatory to install secret government spookware in every Walkman—or camera—to prevent home taping from killing Michael Jackson. Absolutely brilliant.

The official Government Random Number Generator used for seeding new encryption keys is a thing of legend, running as it does on a type of punched paper tape that hasn't been manufactured since the 1950s. (We had to invent some really neat hacks using digital cameras to read it into our oldest trailing-edge minicomputers in order to use those numbers . . .)

It's almost as if Congress has no idea that a giant occult power struggle for control of the US government is in progress Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or perhaps it's over already, and a ruthless media clamp-down by tongue-eating mind control parasites is the only thing keeping the world from learning about the takeover of DC by gibbering alien nightmares. I

April 5th. You know what that means to me? That means the budget for the project expired at the end of financial year 1968 and was not renewed. (Yes, British government budgets—and the tax year—start on April 6th. Why are you looking at me like that? Don't your tax years start and stop on a random date in April?) I

can't decide whether his next show should be a sitcom about government bureaucrats or a horror series

If he wakes the ancient sleeping horrors I am going to have to brief the private secretary and the Joint Intelligence Oversight Committee so that they can explain CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN to the COBRA Committee, chaired by the Prime Minister, and I expect that will make them extremely unhappy

Secretary of State Henry Stimson disbanded the Black Chamber in 1929, with the immortal phrase, "gentlemen do not read each other's mail," but that didn't stop the Black Chamber's secrets

About 80 percent of the NSA's total body count are actually employees of various consultancy firms, because that way they don't show up on the org chart. Their remaining internal managers can point to the black boxes that do the job and sneer, "Employees? We don't have no steenking employees!" (Tell that to Edward Snowden.)

But his former day job—he is still a vicar, and his bishop is remarkably reluctant to raise a fuss about his apparent conscription by a secret government agency devoted to issues which can best be described as ungodly (or worse, wrong godly)—taught him a lot about helping people.

The widespread belief among some politicians that government can't do anything right—that the private sector is always better—becomes a corrosive, self-fulfilling prophecy. Government isn't allowed to be bright and cheerful, helpful and efficient.

War made the state, and the state made war

Good government makes a market economy possible. Period. And bad government, or no government, dashes capitalism against the rocks, which is one reason that billions of people live in dire poverty around the globe.

Commodity money solves the hyperinflation problem. No government can produce huge new quantities of gold, silver, or mackerel.

Here is a statement of the obvious: banks with "state" in the name are chartered by the state; those with "national" in their name are chartered by the feds.)

In general, economists tend to favor taxes that are broad, simple, and fair. A simple tax is easily understood and collected;

stories. One of them went regularly to a market in the neighboring village and helped himself to whatever he liked. He went in full uniform, breaking the earth with his boots, and no one dared touch him. It was said that if you touched a soldier, Government