#govern

Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix ↗

— Donna Galanti

#murder #secret-agent #experience

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#learning-from-mistakes #experience

Newt Gingrich, buddy, the people of the United States don’t like you. And the only reason the rest of the world doesn’t despise you is because they don’t know you. Thankfully you won’t have to experience that global derision, as you have reached the pinnacle of your career as a crook—I mean politician. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #creep #crook #crooked #despise

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#separation-of-powers #design

I was born unworthy. - X-10 ↗

— Donna Galanti

#government #monster #paranormal #experience

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man? ↗

— Howard Zinn

#equality #faith #government #history #equality

Did you know you can drink food? It’s true! It’s called soup, and I eat it with a fork. I’m as efficient as the government.
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— Jarod Kintz

#beuracracy #eat #efficiency #efficient #food

Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #democrats #funny #government #humor

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #government #politics #trust #food

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#government #politics #freedom