#govern

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#advancing #competing #demands #efforts #fiat

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#before #ever #find #go #government

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#attention #directed #early #exploring #government

Men still have to be governed by deception. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#governed #men #still

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#equally #government #governs #least #most

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#constituents #court #effect #government #government offices

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low. ↗

— Eric Liu

#low #our #past #public #system

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#chavez #deteriorating #fabric #government #infrastructure

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#appoint #bring #council #country #disarm