#gov

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#between #communications #daily #daily work #freedom

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ↗

— Anatole France

#chance #did #ever #free #god

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade. ↗

— Barney Frank

#approach #ask #bin #brutal #did

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#blame #conservatives #difficult #evasion #governing

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#concerns #debate #democrats #elected #fundamental

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#anyone #becomes #bureaucracy #care #expensive

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#best #business #carrying #considering #execution

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#chinese #civil #civil government #empire #even

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#first #governor #i #listed #number

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#charge #desert #federal #federal government #government