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“Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply an economic matter. In essence it is an ethical and moral question, for whoever takes the important economic decisions in society ipso facto determines the social priorities of that society.”

People Important Matter Government Social Decision Moral Economic Majors Essence Determine Priorities Decision Making Ethical Meaningless

Author:Jimmy Reid

“I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.”

Art Government Policy Majors Environmental Attorney Dartmouth Environmental Policy

Author:Aisha Tyler

“From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.”

“It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.”

Government Majors Advantage Argument Function Presses Free Press

Author:Walter Cronkite

“I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.”

Source: March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931

“There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.”

World Kind Two Government Kids Reading This World Majors Files Cryptography

Book:Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C

Source: Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C

“Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.”

Way Important Use Government Social Groups Politician Majors Consumers Businessman Vitality Family Life Social Life Sap Indicators Weakening Purchasing Health And Strength

Author:Adrian Wilson

“When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.”

“We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.”

Government Technology Materials Industry Majors Espionage

Author:Julian Assange