#government

Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle. ↗

— Maxwell D. Taylor

#government #here #how #know #machinery

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#cause #change #decadence #different #different ways

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#constitution #federal #federal government #gives #government

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

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 hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accept #access #back #century #done

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#democracy #good #good works #government #nobody

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#believe #certain #chinese #committed #confident

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#backs #both #competition #entrepreneurs #external

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

— Cyrus Rowlett Smith

#future #government #lay #mail #people