On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're bil...
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'
Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
