#control

It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#afghanistan #better #control #corruption #country

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant. ↗

— Charley Reese

#free #government #ignorant #never #our

My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately. ↗

— Ralph Regula

#bill #center #control #disease #fund

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#come #control #destinies #each #governed

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#acting #control #nerves #over #touches

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ↗

— Terry Riley

#control #everyone #kind #mode #own

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#continuing #control #enough #government #informed

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#come #control #exclude #generations #human

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. ↗

— Elihu Root

#authority #conduct #conformity #control #counsel

The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights. ↗

— Don Rose

#been #built #control #exploitation #financial