#government

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#get #government #kick #need #pants

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#good #governments #lie #look #nothing

One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#blessing #cries #fishing #forget #found

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#care #different #government #help #life

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#chooses #civil #civil disobedience #disobedience #effect

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#final #frigates #got #government #life

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term. ↗

— Clare Short

#chance #good #good chance #government #keep

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better. ↗

— Peter Singer

#behave #better #citizens #could #dark

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government. ↗

— Cyrus Rowlett Smith

#future #government #lay #mail #people

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#america #bill #control #facing #farm