Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.
The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.
We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
The way you think is the driving force that fashions your world thereby governing the kind of life that you live.
We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.
The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan.
The government are tightening up on ID for sales of tobacco and alcohol so I recommend that young people take more drugs.
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.
