“I was like so many others passion-ately involved in trying to bring those truths to the world's attention. We did our very best to peacefully do that. The city, state, and federal governments did their very best to quell our efforts. They were used to using heavy-handed tactics to silence us.” WorldTryingStatesGovernmentUsedPassionEffortCitiesAttentionSilenceInvolvedHeavyFederal GovernmentTactics Author:Leonard Peltier
“The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that.” IdeasStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesFiguresInvolvedGet InvolvedState GovernmentUnited States Government Author:Diana L. Eck
“Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.” FirstsHas BeensGovernmentTodayLawReadingNationsDealsMoralTroubleMiddleCenturyExampleInvolvedExerciseLettersConstitutionClaimsDifficultyVariousEastEstablishmentMiddle EastAmendmentsOutsidersFoundersFirst AmendmentUs Constitution Author:Bill Nye
“Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.” ShouldGovernmentCareEconomyIssuesEconomicHugeInvolvedCrisisHealth CareEconomic CrisisProxy Author:Barack Obama
“That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been closely involved in this along with my colleague Nigel Scullion, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs - what we have been trying to do for some years now, throughout the life of the Coalition Government in fact, is to bring the Australian people on a journey with us - conservative Australians as well as more progressive Australians, to persuade them that it is a seemly and fitting and decent and appropriate thing to recognise the first Australians in the Constitution.” PeopleTryingYearsFirstsWellsHas BeensFactsGovernmentJourneyInvolvedConstitutionBillsAffairConservativeMinistersDecentAppropriateProgressiveColleaguesIndigenousAustralianFittingRecogniseAttorneyCoalitions Author:George Brandis
“Experts on both sides, both parties say that, [Donald Trump] is going to turn over the operation to his three children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka. That's not a blind trust. According to experts we talked to, they're involved now in choosing the next government.” ChildrenGovernmentTurnsThreeNextSidesPartyTrumpInvolvedBlindOperationsExpertsBoth SidesEricBlind Trust Author:Brian Ross
“It's really a situation [ Donald Trump's children are involved now in choosing the next government] that no other president had in years and years. He clearly is not going to follow the idea that - generally there is no rule that requires this but there generally is a situation which people are required to put their interests to the side so they don't have a conflict.” PeopleYearsChildrenIdeasGovernmentNextSidesPresidentInterestSituationTrumpInvolvedConflict Author:Brian Ross
“There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.” FirstsGovernmentCoursesLevelsInvolvedComplaintsIncompetenceBusiness First Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I think it's reasonable that the government, when it has a warrant from a court, when it's exposed to scrutiny by a legal process that would be upheld, not just nationally, but internationally as a reliable and robust standard rights protection, they can enjoy certain powers. This is no different from having the police able to get a warrant to go and search your house, to kick at your door because they think you're an arms dealer or something like that. There needs to be a process involved, it needs to be public, and it needs to be challengeable in court at all times.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentGovernmentWould BeAbleCertainHouseProcessEnjoyRightsDoorsArmsInvolvedStandardsPoliceCourtProtectionAll TimeKicksReasonableExposedDealerScrutinyRobustWarrants Author:Edward Snowden
“Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.” GovernmentBehindsInvolvedTradeCarefulMotiveRegulationGet InvolvedProposalPropose Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.” WorldWayFirstsHas BeensTwoDifferentWarCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedViewsUnited StatesInvolvedArmyExtraordinaryIsraelDifferent WaysOfficialsIslamicIranPalestinianSupporterInterventionCiviliansSanctionsGulf War Author:Edward Said
“When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, "it's a local issue." I said, "No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help." And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.” PeopleWaySaidCountryHelpingGovernmentIssuesCrimeInvolvedProgramBillsSpreadLocalsBest WayFederal GovernmentGet Involved Author:Charles Schumer
“I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately afterwards, but then some of those women who were involved in the movement got involved in representative positions and perhaps some of them got a bit distanced from the grassroots issues. But also the women's movement itself seemed to say, "No, we've got our own government, our own parties in power" and they sat back.” ImportantGovernmentBitsPartyStruggleIssuesMovementPositionInvolvedSatIrelandRepresentativesGrassrootsStruggle For Freedom Author:Mary Robinson