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" A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. "
James Madison
Tragedy
Farce
Government
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" The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment. "
David Mamet
Greed
Peace
Evil
" If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Government
Risks
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" My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. "
Nicos Anastasiades
Necessary
Will
Unity
" A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. "
Spiro T. Agnew
Government
Monopoly
Fraternity
" We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal! "
John McCain
Party
Government
Important
" A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. "
Thomas Jefferson
Improvement
Men
Wise
" The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise. "
Jeff Bezos
You
Government
You Can Do It
" A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. "
Dambisa Moyo
Money
Free
Long
" I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. "
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Than
Long
Government
" I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide. "
Benigno Aquino III
Think
Government
Leader
" If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. "
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Become
Care
" It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend. "
Richard J. Codey
Good
Society
Responsibility
" It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. "
Gus O'Donnell
You
Day
Government
" I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government. "
Yitzhak Rabin
Peace
Believe
Government
" The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. "
James Madison
Purpose
Soil
Separation
" A government of laws, and not of men. "
John Adams
Men
Government
Laws
" Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system. "
Norman Ornstein
Government
You
Play
" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "
Thomas Sowell
Want
Government
Life
" I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself. "
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Think
Mouth
Government
" Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. "
Milton Friedman
Program
Nothing
Government
" There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. "
Stokely Carmichael
Law
Conscience
Government
" Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. "
Mackenzie King
Government
Opinion
Analysis
" It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. "
James Madison
Truth
Home
Liberty
" If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. "
Lysander Spooner
Never
Now
Honest
" The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. "
Daniel Webster
Government
Made
For The People
" The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. "
James Madison
People
Government
Fountain
" No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards. "
Donella Meadows
Goals
Government
Performance
" While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve. "
Kirsten Gillibrand
Need
Veterans
Brave
" The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government. "
Chelsea Manning
Integrity
Free
Government
" Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing. "
Naval Ravikant
Think
American
Bank