#govern

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. ↗

— United Nations

#censorship #communication #encroachment #freedom-of-opinion #freedom-of-speech

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#knowledge #life #longing #love #mankind

This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans. ↗

— Francine Busby

#all americans #being #conservative #government #liberal

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government. ↗

— David Axelrod

#democrats #donations #fund-raising #gilded-age #government

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#bad #bad idea #because #bites #come

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#building #building block #family #forgotten #fundamental

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#government #new #new government #open #people

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#fundamentalist #governments #organizations #stability #world

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#determines #economic #economic power #governments #political

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. ↗