Quotes About Government

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

So they became superpatriots. And to prove themselves right-minded, they were more than willing to sacrifice the lives of others, even their fellow Jews. They were like the Vichy government in France, collaborators who held on to their influence and position at the expense of their fellow countrymen.

So repression is not the sole reason why the Chinese middle classes are basically calm. Most of them accept an implicit social contract between the Chinese people and the Chinese government. As long as the Chinese government continues to deliver economic growth (with improvements in living conditions, including better environmental living conditions) and social and political stability, the Chinese people will accept the rule of the CCP.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

The most progressive tax years in US history were 1944 and 1945, with a 94% rate applied to any income above $200,000 (the equivalent in 2009 of $2.4 million). Such top rates, often denounced as confiscatory by those who had to pay them, would not drop below 80% for another 20 years. At the end of World War II, many other countries adopted similar and often extreme tax measures. In the UK during the war, the top income tax rate rose to an extraordinarily stunning 99.25%!

was zero in 1914; a year after the end of World War I, it was 50%. Canada introduced income tax in 1917 as a "temporary" measure to finance the war, and then expanded it dramatically during World War II with a flat 20% surtax imposed on all income tax payable by persons other than corporations and the

As both an economist and public-health specialist put it: "Only saving lives will save livelihoods",[23] making it clear that only policy measures that place people's health at their core will enable an economic recovery, adding: "If governments fail to save lives, people afraid of the virus will not resume shopping, traveling, or dining out. This will hinder economic recovery, lockdown or no lockdown.

The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country.

I'm stretching my point only a bit when I say that in American life, every vision must begin and end in an economic argument in order to be heard, on urgent matters of human life: labor, education, immigration, refugees, prisons, poverty, health care. Rename

Hell is not other people. Hell is the DMV.

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.

All genuine political theories presuppose man to be 'evil'.

It is time for us to keep in mind that it requires more to make and preserve a Republic than the mere absence of a king, and that when a Republic decays its soul is apt to die first, which its outward form may still be lasting.

The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

En materia política, indicamos, López Obrador está fortaleciendo la presidencia a expensas de los otros poderes de la Unión y también del federalismo.

López Obrador, sin abandonar el marco democrático, socava los contrapesos al Ejecutivo, condición éstos tanto para acotar el poder presidencial como para desarrollar la democracia.

The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot

To simplify, the state steals money—taxes—from parents in order to use that money to kidnap children from those very parents. This is why reform may be impossible, for the very nature of the system is unethical and based on the destruction of others.

What you must understand is that according to the U.S. government, a parent does not own the rights to care for their own child. Instead, the true responsibility for childcare belongs to the state.

Foster homes are often where kids go to die. It is time to acknowledge that when the state "fixes problems," their policies can result in the blood of the innocent dripping on the floor.

You can change government and quasi-governmental agencies and systems from within about as successfully as you can tame a lion after it eats you, and any meaningful change from inside is usually ephemeral.