#government

There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#adding #anything #between #big #big difference

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week. ↗

— John Sununu

#anticipation #bureaucrats #bury #dropped #dump

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. ↗

— John Sununu

#both #congress #controls #cooperate #divisive

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business. ↗

— John Sununu

#business #create #creating #formula #government

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#british #british government #cost #country #curiously

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral. ↗

— Randall Terry

#forces #give #go #government #immoral

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#affording #any #errors #except #general

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#been #compromise #conduct #financial #government

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#complex #delivering #even #fully #government

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#enlarged #forms #free #good #government