“Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.” PeopleStatesGovernmentSocialCitizensWasteAgencyOfficialsContractsBureaucratsBreachSocial ContractGovernment Officials Author:Bob Riley
“Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn't hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses -- and lives -- in the process.” WantKindBookSometimesUseRunningProcessMistakeReturnCitizensDemandClaimsRegardAgencyRoutineContemptDestroyingUnlimitedAccuracyIrsShamblesRunning Wild Author:James Bovard
“Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective.” WorldWayMayDoeGovernmentNationsInformationCitizensOrdinaryIntentionAround The WorldAgencyApologizingNsaIntelligence AgenciesOrdinary CitizensIntelligence Services Author:Barack Obama
“What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.” GivingCountryCertainImpossibleInformationDutySourceCitizensSafetyAgencyGuaranteesOther CountriesIntelligence Agencies Author:Angela Merkel
“The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.” MadeEndsDoneActionIndividualGenerationsCitizensNotionAvailableFamiliarAgencyAttainment Book:Spencer: Political Writings Source: Spencer: Political Writings
“The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point, the state had really withdrawn from Lagos; the city was left to its own devices, both in terms of money and services. That, by definition, created an unbelievable proliferation of independent agency: each citizen needed to take, in any day, maybe 400 or 500 independent decisions on how to survive that extremely complex system.” LooksRealStatesHappensLeftTermDecisionCitiesNeededCitizensIndependentComplexesDefinitionsAgencyDevicesUnbelievableAbsentReal ThingsProliferationComplex Systems Author:Rem Koolhaas
“Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.” CitizensDiseasePressureIllnessMedicalPrioritiesAgencyHospitalsRelevantAssociationPublic HealthTop PrioritiesGreening Author:Andrew Weil