The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace both in words and deeds. By contrast the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
Most of the press is in league with government or with the status quo.
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
I am the government.
If indeed a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes and yet the government of course is arming criminals.
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.
The government for example has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people and so must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection how are you going to have it in city government?
My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government by taking them all over the United States and giving them a correct idea of the customs life etc. of the pale faces so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned stop conning yourself.
If you seek Hamilton's monument look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson but live in Hamilton's country a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind they're more susceptible to go to war.
People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.
Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100 000 elevator.