#government

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#am #city #city council #council #government

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#arranged #candidates #during #election #first

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #discouraging #eisenhower #feeling #fell

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#give #government #happiness #men #office

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#field #frankly #get #government #i

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. ↗

— Samuel Chase

#christian religion #christians #denominations #entitled #equal

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#back #day #factory #far-reaching #go

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#atrocities #called #coming #go #government

Governments don't control people like they used to. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#governments #like #people #used

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#against #argument #average #best #conversation