#government

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I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.


Criss Jami


#brickheads #conscious #consciousness #conservatism #conservative

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.


Spiro T. Agnew


#elected #enjoying #fraternity #government #licensed

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.


Eric Anderson


#government #motivated #often #private #private sector

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.


Brandon Sanderson


#rebellion #rebellion

...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#democracy-voting #election #elections #false-promises #government

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.


Thomas Frank


#government #politics #republican #elections

We have to have the faithful in government.


Katherine Harris


#government

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.


Jack Layton


#criminal #department #government #investigation #minister

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.


Mia Love


#beyond #education #ever #far #government

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.


James Madison


#both #farce #government #information #means