“The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.” WayGovernmentPoliticalEasyStuffSpecialCompetitionPrivilegeMaking MoneyRestrictionEasy WaySubsidies Author:Charles Koch
“Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!” WorldWantKindLongCountryGovernmentNightTurnsFightingStuffDemocracyImagineVoteArmySupposed To BeImagine ThatAll NightRegisterHypocriticalSaigon Author:Malcolm X
“People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.” PeopleHas BeensGovernmentFormLyingBeliefStuffAcceptingWillingRight NowConceptsAliensComing OutClosetsBelief SystemsComing Out Of The Closet Author:Gillian Anderson
“I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as "forbidden knowledge": methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.” ThinkingKnowsWantLongGovernmentIndividualStuffInterestStandingMethodKillingLocksForbiddenSpySelectEntryUnarmed Author:Barry Eisler
“Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.” PeopleShouldKindMatterGovernmentWould BeTogetherJobsStuffPositionIdealsPlantBoringPleasantWireUtilityPower Plants Author:Grace Slick
“There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.” WantTwoStatesGovernmentKidsForceStuffUnitedUnited StatesSecurityThirdsPoliceTwo ThingsCommercePoisoning Author:Margaret Atwood