#govern

Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government. ↗

— William Weld

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Micro managing anything is not a great role for government. ↗

— William Weld

#government #great #managing #micro #role

So government acts as a safeguard of our property. ↗

— William Weld

#government #our #property #safeguard

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. ↗

— William Weld

#courts #dangerous #government #least #our

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society. ↗

— Gideon Welles

#government #society #vain #well-balanced #without

Financial crises require governments. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#financial #financial crises #governments #require

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ↗

— Richard Whately

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It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#been #concerned #confusion #demonstrable #equal

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives? ↗

— William H. Wharton

#govern #knowledge #knows #laws #lives

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#benefits #businesses #care #compensation #costs