#government

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#anyway #board #criminal #government #i

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#despise #ends #government #i #i think

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#allowed #before #claim #experiment #failed

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#away #borrowing #both #card #credit

We have evidence that a number of Bahrainis who oppose our government are being trained in Syria. I have seen the files and we have notified the Syrian authorities, but they deny any involvement. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#authorities #being #deny #evidence #files

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#bad #bad government #becomes #government #later

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#control #credit #currency #democracy #futile

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#cold #efficient #eliminate #fact #fraud

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#belligerent #contested #even #goal #government

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#based #cultural #democratic #governments #human