#gov

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults. ↗

— Brian Baird

#appeal #back #courage #goal #government

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people. ↗

— John Baldacci

#common #common good #communities #feel #good

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#any #being #bidder #buy #credibility

I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#business #educational #government #i #inc

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#asking #blinds #government #install #like

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#either #fairly #force #good #government

By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#creating #district #framework #georgia #give

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#endeavors #everybody #everybody else #expense #fiction

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people. ↗

— Brad Henry

#fundamental #government #people #protect

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#governors #i #ideologues #know #many