#government

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

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Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#our #tell #travel #us #where

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#brave #challenge #end #go #going

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#deep #express #feel #government #i

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#best #completely #democratic #democratic government #fulfills

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#constitution #designed #government #neutral #off

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#charge #desert #federal #federal government #government

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#government #many #more #much #people

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#government program #nothing #permanent #program #temporary

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#big #big issue #collect #difficult #government