#govern

If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government to tell us what their financial supporters want us to know. ↗

— Richard Diaz

#government #information #learn #teach #experience

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#democracy #deserve #device #governed #shall

Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#machiavelli #power #faith

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well ↗

— Charles Colson

#faith #government #virtue #faith

To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in Washington DC.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #family #family-reunion #miserable #misery

It should not be the government running the economy. ↗

— Quico Canseco

#government #running #should

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#government #indication #labour #least #satisfied

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only. ↗

— Bob Riley

#comes #confidence #down #fight #first

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. ↗