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" By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority. "

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" Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information. "

Bill Gates

Information

Nothing

Government

" Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf. "

" You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better. "

" The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "

" Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. "

" When the Constitution was written in 1787, there was this supposition that American politics would be above party. The people who would staff the positions in government would have the interests of the country, or at least their states and congressional districts, at heart, and so they wouldn't form permanent political parties. "

" In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. "

" How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. "

" I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

University

Boston

Government

" 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. "

" Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. "

Ronald Reagan

Beyond

Government

" The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. "

" I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work. "

" The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are. "

" I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor. "

" What we can do in Singapore may not be doable elsewhere. Some things you know you need: you want efficient government, you want clean government, you want to do away with corruption, you must educate your people. You want to get housing and so on. All these are not such secrets, not so special to Singapore. "

" Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us. "

Shari Arison

Change

Powerful

" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "

" I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. "

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

People

Religion

Government

" The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion. "

" A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. "

" Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the country we live in is built for married couples with a male breadwinner and a female domestic laborer. Government needs to be massively altered in order to serve this population. "

" We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs. "

" There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people. "

" Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism. "

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Criticism

Desire

Progress

" The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. "

" If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "

" A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has. "

" We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. "

" I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system. "