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Quotes About Government

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.
~ Kevin Mitnick
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
~ Kevin Mitnick
No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Anyway, the question of whether or not the modern far right's stance is 'fascist' has no bearing on the moral acceptability of its proposals. For instance, would the expulsion of non?whites from a country be more acceptable if it was the work of a non?fascist government?
~ Kevin Passmore
As far as they were concerned, if the U.S. government did not extinguish its debt, there would always be public creditors. Those creditors, who would come from among the wealthiest Americans, would support the U.S. government. The Union would thus be cemented. Madison cooperated closely with Hamilton and
~ Kevin R.C. Gutzman
To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.
~ Kevin Rudd
The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game eliminate waste and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.
~ Kevin Rudd
If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.
~ Kevin Rudd
The government should, as a matter of policy, forbid the building of any more places of worship. We have more than enough of them. The government should never permit the use of public parks or open spaces for religious gathering, and if a place of worship becomes a bone of contention or happens to be misused by undesirable elements, it should simply take it over.
~ Khushwant Singh
The Incas, although an authoritarian monarchy, had succeeded nevertheless during their short reign not only in creating a massive empire, but perhaps more importantly in guaranteeing all of the empire's millions of inhabitants the basic necessities of life: adequate food, water, and shelter. It was an achievement that no subsequent government -- Spanish or Peruvian -- has attained since
~ Kim MacQuarrie
Like Alexis de Tocqueville, they feared unfettered democracy and believed totalitarianism was the natural consequence of mass democracy run amok. They
~ Kim R. Holmes
That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
But withholding information about vulnerabilities in US systems so that they can be exploited in foreign ones creates a schism in the government that pits agencies that hoard and exploit zero days against those, like the Department of Homeland Security, that are supposed to help secure and protect US critical infrastructure and government systems.
~ Kim Zetter
But he insisted his reasons for supplying to governments went deeper than money: "We mainly work with governments who are facing national security issues … we help them in protecting their democracies and protecting lives.… It's like any surveillance method. The government needs to know if something bad is being prepared and to know what people are doing, to protect national security. So
~ Kim Zetter
One such middleman is a South African security researcher based in Thailand who is known in the security community by his hacker handle "The Grugq." The Grugq brokers exploit sales between his hacker friends and government contacts, pocketing a 15 percent commission per transaction. He only launched his business in 2011, but by 2012 sales were so good, he told a reporter he expected to make $1 million in commissions.
~ Kim Zetter
In amassing zero-day exploits for the government to use in attacks, instead of passing the information about holes to vendors to be fixed, the government has put critical-infrastructure owners and computer users in the United States at risk of attack from criminal hackers, corporate spies, and foreign intelligence agencies who no doubt will discover and use the same vulnerabilities for their own operations.
~ Kim Zetter
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~ Kim Zetter
But one person's national security tool can be another's tool of oppression, and there's no guarantee that a government that buys zero days won't misuse them to spy on political opponents and activists or pass them to another government that will.
~ Kim Zetter
people be dried up at the root, never to manifest, in Jesus's name. I decree and declare that my nation is the inheritance of the Lord (Ps. 2:7-8), and the kingdom is the Lord's. He is the governor of my nation (Ps. 22:28). Let every president, magistrate, Senate member, member of Congress, council member, and all other governmental representatives be subject to that authority. Jesus is Lord over America!
~ Kimberly Daniels
I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
~ Kin Hubbard
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
~ Kin Hubbard
Politics makes strange postmasters.
~ Kin Hubbard
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
~ King Abdullah II
How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
~ Kinky Friedman