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Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production
It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.
For heaven's sakes, every parent in America is checking social media and every employer is as well, but our government can't do it.
Society and Government should together give priority to the poorest of poor and make efforts to provide affordable health services.
In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.
Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive manner.
Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.
In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.
We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.
Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.
The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
It's a sad day in America when foreign governments with deep pockets have more influence in our own country than our great citizens.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.
No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.
A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!
I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.
I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in government.
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.