Quotes About Government

politics?" "A necessary evil that on rare occasions works without corruption, abuse, and waste.

Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv ist, ob der Bürger am Leben oder tot ist.

The bottom line is...if you were in the civilian population, you'd be a serial killer. Working for the government means you get to wave the American flag around when it suits you, but the truth is, you do what you do because you enjoy picking the wings off of flies. And everybody's an insect in your eyes.

The Jeremiah guy invited me to come work for the government. He said he was with the military and they were looking for guys like me. I was all, 'Farm boys? Y'all looking for redneck farm boys?

as a planned result of the separation of powers, the president must persuade Congress of the rightness of his choices, and that is the way it should be.

As has been seen, Obama clearly lied about transparency. As shall be seen, he lied just as spectacularly about the rule of law.

Reagan never worried about whether jobs were shovel-ready. He understood that the work of creating jobs was not the government's, let alone his, but that of the nation's employers. They would create the jobs that made economic sense, even if only burly men could do them.

In fact, Bush's tax cuts increased the amount of revenue collected by more than 30 percent from his first year as president to his last, just as Reagan's and Kennedy's tax cuts increased federal revenue after they were passed. As economist Thomas Sowell argued, "Obama knew then that tax rates and tax revenues do not automatically move in the same direction. In other words, he is lying when he talks as if tax rates and tax revenues move together.

I figured out that for every dollar I made trading, 30 percent was going to the government, 30 percent was going to support my planes, and 20 percent was going to support my real estate. So I finally decided to sell everything.

Surveillant anxiety is always a conjoined twin: The anxiety of those surveilled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers. But the anxiety of the surveillers is generally hard to see; it's hidden in classified documents and delivered in highly coded languages in front of Senate committees.

The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.

I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

'Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real world understood how dark, twisted and corrupt it really was, they would never agree with our government or want to be part of it. It's been kind of fun to live in that world. It felt like a fictional world.

In my government, I do Twitter on my own. I have no sponsorship, nothing.

The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.

Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us - and the government wants to be able to see it.

Trump has emphatically denied ties to Russia - a claim refuted by his Twitter feed and a cursory Google search. Putin says his government had nothing to do with the hack of the DNC computers, even though it carelessly left a trail of crumbs tracing back to his intelligence services. The cunning liar is exploiting the blundering one.

I think Twitter will be a fundamental part of how people interact with their government.

Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet.

You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.

The fact is, marriage is just a legal piece of paper. I don't see why the government needs to get involved in what two people do with their lives. It's none of their business.

If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?