Quotes about govern
government calling wonder
I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government. Medea Benjamin
government needs permit
We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow. Max Lucado
government protect
It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.
government-intervention impact steel
Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry. Max Baucus
government law play
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives. Maurice Strong
government decent catastrophe
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly. Max Hastings
government competition pressure
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.
government self issues
Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?
government people boards
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I. Matthew Lesko
government people focus
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. Maynard James Keenan
government people educated
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
government giving miles
When you give the government an inch, they take a mile. Matt Salmon
government want-something rights
It used to be that your rights were infringed upon if the government punished or threatened you for expressing your sincerest beliefs. Now, your rights are infringed upon if you want something but someone refuses to buy it for you. Matt Walsh
government agency work-out
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term. Matt Taibbi
government cities united-states
Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.
government discipline scratches
If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government. Meg Greenfield
government order needs
In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.
government names suffering
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it Meg Whitman
government strategy should
As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy. May-Britt Moser
government justice revolution
lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue. Maximilien Robespierre
government republic foundation
The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.
government defining action
The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable. Max Weber
government use politics
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.
government people giving
In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people. Matthew Continetti
government immigration united-states
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. Pat Paulsen
government debt complicated
No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works. P. J. O'Rourke
government addresses mail
Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!
government fool affair
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools. Plato
government easy
It is easy to rule over the good. Plautus
government democracy kind
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
government lust lovers
So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
government truth-is states
Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
government democracy anarchy
Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.