As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.
He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.
People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.
The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.
My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.
While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.
I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.
Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
