#government

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. ↗

— Joseph Goebbels

#great #keyboard #play #press #think

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#balance #check #cozy #democracy #essential

The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#cutting #every #government #growing #healthcare

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#business #businesses #create #creates #does

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#fails #fulfill #government #legitimacy #loses

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. ↗

— William Hague

#democratic #development #earn #ease #find

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years. ↗

— Deidre Hall

#come #find #government #how #i

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#am #among #claiming #compelled #definitively

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#banking #because #canada #canadians #causes

Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#canada #case #destroys #first #first of all