#government

It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people. ↗

— Ben Linder

#country #feeling #first #government #people

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#around #because #book #case #could

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#big enough #enough #everything #give #government

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ↗

— Anatole France

#chance #did #ever #free #god

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade. ↗

— Barney Frank

#approach #ask #bin #brutal #did

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#concerns #debate #democrats #elected #fundamental

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together. ↗

— Bill Frist

#american people #deserve #expect #government #leaders

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government? ↗

— David Frum

#competing #government #left #right #victim

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economics #economists #employment #extremely #form

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#forms #government #majority #mass #prejudice