#government

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. ↗

— John Updike

#either #government #madness #magnitude #organized

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. ↗

— John Updike

#extent #government #i #i love #least

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#act #agencies #attacks #each #fully

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#bureaucrats #city #city government #complicated #condition

These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#becomes #country #discuss #government #guy

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#get #give #life #living #make

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#control #despotic #does #elite #form

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. ↗

— Lord Acton

#class #danger #every #govern #particular

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#enforced #government #lesson #people #should

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#national #national government #office #our #people