#government

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else. ↗

— Ann Richards

#else #expect #get #going #government

The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#cover #covering #fact #going #government

Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world - and having, inevitably, been created out of an individual's relationship with the world - that information retains some connection with its author that allows that person some control over how it is replicated and used. In other words, the claim that lies beneath the notion of intellectual property is similar or identical to the one that underpins notions of privacy. It seems to me that the two are inseparable, because they are fundamentally aspects of the same issue, the need we have to be able to do something by convention that is impossible by force: the need to ringfence certain information. I believe that the most important unexamined notion - for policymakers and agitators both - in these debates is that they are one: you can't persuade people on the one hand to abandon intellectual property (a decision which, incidentally, would mean an even more massive upheaval in the way the world runs than we've seen so far since 1990) and hope to keep them interested in privacy. You can't trash privacy and hope to retain a sense of respect for IP. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#government #intellectual-property #ip #privacy #truth

As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#care #city #coast #education #extraordinary

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#bestseller #book #bragging #copied #first

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#against #because #build #business #committed

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. ↗

— Zoe Lofgren

#constitutional #election #government #meets #only

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#government #iraq #puppet #setting #states

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. ↗

— John Major

#allegedly #come #complete #dancing #disillusionment

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#full #good #good idea #government #idea