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“There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.”

Stories Bigs Government Company Treats Victim Dollars Charity Available Billions Contracts Construction Sophisticated Angle Incompetence Insurance Companies Scams Follow Up Levees

Author:Brian Ross

“I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.”

Way Government Approach Treats Dissent Revolt Housework

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.”

“It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.”

People Should Government Wise Treats Maxims

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.”

Government Democracy Right Now Treats

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.”

People Government Political Process Moral Failing Treats Democratic Cancer Corruption Routine Cynicism Wrongdoing Democratic Government

Author:Edward Brooke

“Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are able to change the development of things. That's why they have a very specific ironic sentiment towards power and the figures that represent it. I wanted to translate this irony into the cinematic language.”

People Believe Government Able Wanted Language Figures Development Ordinary Treats Don't Believe Irony Sentiments Ironic Translate Ordinary People Cinematic

Author:Andrey Zvyagintsev

“The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.”

Way Government Treats Refugee

Author:Tony Benn

“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

Life Children Said Government Age Moral Shadow Tests Treats Sick Dawn Disability Twilight Elders Elderly Needy Handicaps Handicapped Light And Shadow Senior Citizen

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive citizens are but by how it treats its dissidents, those posing authentic challenges to what the government does.”

Wells Doe Country Government Challenges Media Citizens Treats Determined Conventions Elites Passive Ignored Affirming Posing Dissidents

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.”

People Government Television Tvs Treats Warm Pitcher Spit Grievance Petitions Redress

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.”

People Way Has Beens Government Past Failing Treats Very Good Greek

Author:W. S. Merwin

“I'm not going to let the government make a profit out of lending money for people to go to college. So we're going to really change this. I see it as an investment, not an expense, and I'm going to treat it that way.”

People Way Government College Treats Investment Profit Expenses Lending Lending Money

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.”

People Knows War Government Desire Enemy Treats Treated Rebel Barbarians Barbaric

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well”

People Wells Self Government Virtue Capable Treats Instinct Tyrants Civility Self-government

Book:How Now Shall We Live?

Source: How Now Shall We Live?

“You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if you're going to need government aid to take care of yourself ... It [2006 immigration bill] failed because it did not do what it said it would do... End the illegality first. Then we can wrestle with how to treat compassionately people who have been in America for a long time.”

“The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".”

Government Liberty Accepting Citizens Treats Libertarian Criminals Terrorist Surrender Suspects Libertarianism Frightening Citizenry Price Of Freedom

Author:Joseph Sobran

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.”

Men War Country Government Father White Sky Brother Treats Indian Native Native American White Man Native America Native American Indian Great Native American Native American Earth Native Country

Author:Chief Joseph

“The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment."”

“Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.”

Want Government Political Liberty Adults Treats Libertarian Daddy Your Mom Your Dad Government Programs

Author:Andre Marrou

“I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.”

Should Believe Government Adults Treats Criminals Smoke Marijuana Federal Government

Author:Barney Frank

“The government has to treat all citizens equally. I am a strong supporter not of a weak version of civil unions, but of a strong version, in which the rights that are conferred at the federal level to persons who are part of the same-sex union are compatible. When it comes to federal rights, the over 1,100 rights that right now are not being given to same-sex couples, I think that's unacceptable.”

Thinking Persons Government Strong Given Sex Levels Rights Couple Citizens Right Now Gay Weak Treats Unions Versions Supporter Gay Rights Compatible

Author:Barack Obama

“The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.”

Source: A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

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