Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of ...
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they c...
Rights holders, seeing how unpopular their ideas were, headed down a darker path; rather than give up on government help for such schemes, they worked to get them through with limited public debate. New Zealand’s revised law, which began with the p...
Visible alternatives shatter the sense of inevitability, that the system must, necessarily, be patched together in the same form -- this is why it became such an imperative of global governance to stamp them out, or, when that's not possible, to ensu...
One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is no guarantee of good policy.... Over the years, I’ve grown used to these arguments, and my respo...
Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one's family.
You can do nothing about governments and winter.
This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret dip...
A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.
To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt.
Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.
