#government

Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make life better for other people—and they have. ↗

— Morgan Carroll

#advocacy #government #life

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#achievements #career #clichés #double-standards #feminism

The State is like a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has given the State and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. You will not easily find another like me. ↗

— Plato

#life

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#committee #diving #enter #essentially #evaluation

Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#control #god #government #republican #some

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. ↗

— Graham Greene

#beings #governments #human #human beings #i

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society. ↗

— William Hague

#conservative #conservative government #government #mission #next

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#end #government #in the end #our #people

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#government #must #neutrality #observe #strong

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. ↗