#institutions

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#civil liberty #employment #exclusive #guaranteed #his

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#before #bosnia #closing #could #create

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #been #dangerous #decades #decline

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#aspirations #between #hallmark #institutions #our

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#bringing #build #community #conflict #constructively

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#chavez #deteriorating #fabric #government #infrastructure

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#historical #institutions #losing #new #old

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. ↗

— James Madison

#best #crafty #dangerous #encroachments #every

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#doing #institutions #maximize #maximizing #mean

We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#challenge #communities #critical #deal #first