Charles Frankel Quotes

Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.

Charles Frankel

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• There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Job
  • Future
  • Free

• One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Government
  • Purpose
  • Worst

• Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Day
  • Government
  • End

• We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Government

• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Government

• Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Organization

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Government
  • Rich

• Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Respect

• Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Government
  • Equal
  • Judges

• If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Value

• Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Money
  • Why
  • Think

• We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Attention
  • Government

• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Professional
  • Happens

• We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Government
  • Most
  • Albania

• By limiting access to surrogacy based on flimsy and exclusionary criteria, the government may just give rise to a mushrooming black market.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • Black
  • Government

• It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Government

• The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Moral
  • Oppression

• When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while you were Secretary of State, and you didn't, and now the Clinton Global Initiative is having to restate their 990s, that doesn't sound very trustworthy to me.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Me
  • Government
  • Sound

• The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

  

  David Bergland
  • Government
  • Politician
  • Environmental

• When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.

  

  David Sharp
  • Hollywood
  • Director
  • Worked

• You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wind
  • Harbor

• I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

  

  Susan Choi
  • Writing
  • Characters
  • Happen

• Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.

  

  Charles Frankel
  • Government
  • Happens