Paul Craig Roberts Quotes
The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.Paul Craig Roberts
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
Ted Yoho -
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
Iain Sinclair -
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
Nathan Myhrvold -
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia -
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.
Walter Bagehot -
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
Barbara Tuchman -
I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
Rand Paul -
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
Os Guinness -
Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
Sam Brownback -
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
Camille Paglia -
Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out of the way.'
Sam Graves
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
Rand Paul -
I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
Abraham Lincoln -
Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new program or scheme is implemented, but always at the expense of the taxpayer. Small businesses invest in new businesses, which results in more jobs.
Ralph Norman -
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
Wendell Willkie -
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
Iqbal Quadir -
Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
Manmohan Singh
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A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
Jack Layton -
There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.
Ted Olson -
The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
Michael Badnarik -
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke -
Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.
Zana Briski -
The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.
Paul Craig Roberts