One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimiz...
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted.
Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.
Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a movement that peaked with millions marching in 2000 to demand the government say sorry for past injustices.
And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.
I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.
Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.
The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.
Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.
The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
