We all learn in school that the judicial legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy the media religious institutions and NGOs.
In the Pentagon Papers case the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.
You can't fall back on the private sector and say 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government the Federal Reserve the Treasury and the FDIC etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants not student loans and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies people think they aren't important.
Are we still a country that takes risks that innovates that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.
The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
I think though if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others if properly run.
The Government and the Parliament even the House of Lords will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.
There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
I don't consider Americans bullies but I do consider the American government bullying.
We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.
If you want the government off your back get your hands out of its pockets.
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.