Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.
At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.
With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.
America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.
All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.
So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.
I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
