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Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.
Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.
Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.
The government's the one thing that's not supposed to grow. The U.S. economy is supposed to grow. The two things can't really happen together.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.
It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.
We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.
Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.
We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.
From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.
Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.
The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.
Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.
The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.
The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.
If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
Donald Trump will lead a unified Republican government. And we will work hand-in- hand on a positive agenda to tackle America's big challenges.
His [Donald Trump] name is on everything. He is a celebrity. But he is not a governor. He has never run government. He is a business executive.
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.
The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.
And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.
If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.
An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world community would take part.
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.
Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.
The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?