#govern

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#government #now #people #responsibility #were

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#currency #debase #did #doing #fictitious

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#broader #equal #government #hands #includes

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#basic #causing #crises #damage #economy

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#believe #borrow #case #damaging #even

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#help #investment #led #make #need

That fatal drollery called a representative government. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#fatal #government #representative

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#government #houses #jobs #learning #responsibility

Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#experience #film #going #government #government officials

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#balance #check #cozy #democracy #essential