#government

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision. ↗

— Byron White

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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. ↗

— Cornel West

#between #corporate #country #deal #every

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#fundamental #fundamental purpose #government #protect #purpose

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#america #believe #big #big business #business

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#could #ever #government #granted #had

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#ago #because #different #government #just

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing. ↗

— Juan Williams

#been #care #changing #efforts #government

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#continuing #government #important #inflation #part

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#between #daughter #different #different world #fault

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property "without just compensation." The basic model of an unconstitutional "taking" would be if the government threw you out of your house. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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