Elmer Eric Schattschneider Quotes

What is government? From the outside it looks like a security system based on the marriage of land and people, From the inside, it looks like and attempts to create a community. A government is like an oyster, hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and the outside and inside are utterly dependent on each other.

Elmer Eric Schattschneider

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• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Community
  • Fate
  • Impossible

• In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Government
  • Turn

• There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Family

• Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Growth

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • American
  • Think
  • Society

• 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
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Moment

• 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
  • True
  • Think
  • Government

• Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Believe
  • America
  • History

• If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • You
  • Community

• In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Community
  • Angel
  • Feedback

• Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Action
  • Government

• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Business
  • Job
  • Government

• When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

  

  Jack Herer
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • American
  • Community
  • Best

• Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Government
  • Titles
  • Royal

• A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • American
  • Government
  • Exercise

• It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Her

• I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Community
  • Media
  • Trans

• If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

  

  Plutarch

• I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

  

  David Hockney
  • Great

• Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Software

• Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Opportunity
  • Field
  • Provide

• What is government? From the outside it looks like a security system based on the marriage of land and people, From the inside, it looks like and attempts to create a community. A government is like an oyster, hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and the outside and inside are utterly dependent on each other.

  

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider
  • Community
  • Government
  • Marriage