“Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.” WayYearsMindTwoGovernmentKingsYears AgoConstitutionStartingThirtyThirty YearsFramersTwo Minds Author:William J. Clinton
“Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil. Well join me - I’m glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan.” WorldShouldYearsWellsBookHandsGovernmentOrderWrittenAchieveDevilYears AgoShould HaveGladSatanMessiahWorld OrderWorld Government Author:Walter Cronkite
“Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?” YearsChildrenGovernmentSchoolPartyCenturyPlanetsCoupleRacismYears AgoInstitutionsSlaveryDemocraticSlaveTreatedIndianApologizingPotatoesDemocratic PartyFamineAbolitionBlairAbolition Of SlaveryPotato FamineCanadian Government Author:Sean Hannity
“People tell me, 'Bill, let it go. The Kennedy assassination was years ago. It was just the assassination of a President and the hijacking of our government by a totalitarian regime - who cares? Just let it go.' I say, 'All right then. That whole Jesus thing? Let it go! It was 2,000 years ago! Who cares?'” PeopleYearsWholeGovernmentCareJesusPresidentYears AgoBillsRegimesWho CaresLet It GoAssassinationJust Let It GoTotalitarian RegimesHijackingKennedy Assassination Author:Bill Hicks
“The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.” YearsStillsBookGovernmentYears AgoFranceRetiringEarningFunny ThingsEarning Money Author:Peter Mayle
“[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.” IfsWayYearsDoeTwoGovernmentAmericaIndividualLibertyGenerationsGroupsCitizensCostYears AgoDollarsHarmNeighborBillionsSavedCommitWillingnessConceptionPermitElectricityConservationFederal GovernmentFuture GenerationTaxpayers Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?” YearsDoeStillsCountryProblemSeemsGovernmentAbleAmericaOpportunitySocialHundredYears AgoInequalityFiftyTragicEstablishmentShortcomingsFreedom Of ExpressionGreat CountrySocial Inequality Author:Golda Meir
“I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsFirstsChildrenDoeHas BeensSelfGovernmentLawInterestProtectYears AgoProductionsAmendmentsBobFree SpeechBurnedPornographySelf InterestMarketplaceDissentFirst AmendmentWitchcraft Author:Erica Jong
“The State Department allowed Hillary Clinton to remove and destroy government email records, and now we've figured out the State Department is improperly giving government documents to the Clinton operation - documents that should have been turned over to us years ago.” GivingShouldYearsHas BeensStatesGovernmentRecordsYears AgoShould HaveClintonOperationsDepartmentRemoveDocumentsEmailShould Have Been Author:Tom Fitton
“Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.” YearsSaidGovernmentThreeDesignCreationYears AgoThree YearsReconciliationMemorial Author:Malcolm Fraser
“If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this.” IfsYearsGovernmentPastLyingResponsibilitySupportHappenedBearsThousandResearchYears AgoHistoricalDeedsHolocaustPalestinianThousand Years Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million more than the project was originally supposed to cost. Not to mention the fact that it was supposed to open three years ago .. but it was a government operation. What do you expect? I definitely want to put these people in charge of my healthcare and my retirement plan.” PeopleWantYearsMindFactsGovernmentThreeMillionsPlansCostProjectsYears AgoOperationsRetirementThree YearsHealthcareTaxpayersVisitorsWashington Dc Author:Neal Boortz
“In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.” YearsCountryShowsGovernmentEasyPoorQualityEconomicStudentsHigherTenYears AgoDebtStrikesTechniqueMexicoTrapsGood SenseResistingFeesIndoctrinationHigher EducationGood QualityTuitionPoor Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.” ShouldYearsImportantGovernmentSubjectsProtectYears AgoAmendmentsSecond AmendmentRepealing Author:George Will
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we need to do what we should have done years ago - reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We also need to repeal Dodd-Frank, the Democrats' failed solution. Under Dodd-Frank, 10 banks too big to fail have become five banks too big to fail. Thousands of community banks have gone out of business.” NeedsShouldYearsTwoDoneBigsGovernmentOrderCommunityGoneFiveFailingSolutionsYears AgoProgramShould HaveCrisisDemocratReformFrankMacsMaeCorrupt GovernmentDodd Frank Author:Carly Fiorina
“I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in response to that on the part of the security forces and the government, but particularly the army. And you see Pakistan actually fighting terrorism and terrorists in a much more wholehearted way than had been occurring previously. It's not anywhere close to over yet, but you've seen a big change in the antiterrorism campaign here.” ThinkingWayYearsBigsGovernmentFightingForceSecurityCoupleYears AgoArmyResponseTerrorismCampaignsTerroristSignificantPakistanBig ChangesSignificant ChangeSecurity ForcesFighting Terrorism Author:Mohsin Hamid
“On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.” PeopleWantYearsKindMadeWarCountryStatesGovernmentHappensUnitedLeaderUnited StatesProgressMajorsWeaponsYears AgoSouthInternationalNuclearThings HappenMade ItOfficialsFiftyNuclear WeaponsPersistKoreaNorth KoreaOutcastSouth KoreaCeasefire Author:Jimmy Carter
“The real problem is that "limited government" invariably leads to unlimited government. If history is to be any guide and current experience is to be any guide, we in the United States 200 years ago started out with the notion of limited government - virtually no government interference - and we now have a massive quasi-totalitarian government.” IfsYearsRealStatesProblemGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesYears AgoNotionCurrentsGuidesMassiveUnlimitedInterferenceLimited GovernmentReal ProblemsTotalitarian Government Author:Murray Bookchin
“The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are the world's largest central banker for terrorism, if they thought it was in their interest to give a terrorist group a nuclear weapon to use against America or against Israel, I don't think they'd hesitate.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingYearsUseGovernmentAmericaInterestGroupsArmsAuthorityWeaponsYears AgoIsraelTerrorismNuclearTerroristNuclear WeaponsPalestinianBankersIranianTerrorist Groups Author:John Bolton
“I went to Brazil, and you get on the ground and you see it, and you could tell the government was in trouble two years ago. This was just going to sweep the government aside, and it was a force you could feel. Brexit, the same thing.” FeelsYearsTwoGovernmentForceTroubleYears AgoTwo YearsBrazilTwo Years Ago Author:Ken Moelis
“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.” YearsGovernmentCenturyTaxesYears AgoClaimsExperimentsIncomeSocialistTwentieth CenturyIncome TaxTariffs Author:Alan Keyes
“I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing for arms control measures, détente, and so on. He's very high up, and we were talking about whether arms control could succeed. And only partially as a joke he said, "Well it might succeed if the high tech industry makes more profit from arms control than it can make from weapons-related research and production. If we get to that tipping point maybe arms control will work." He was partially joking but there's a truth that lies behind it.” PeopleIfsYearsWellsSaidGovernmentMightRememberLyingBehindsTalkingArmsIndustryInvolvedSucceedWeaponsJokesResearchYears AgoProfitProductionsRelatedTippingTipping Point Author:Noam Chomsky
“A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.” IfsWorldYearsPersonsHandsGovernmentYoungUsedIndividualPresidentTechnologyCreativeCommunicationCoupleCapacityYears AgoToolsIncreaseExcitedDecadesCorporationsChanging The WorldBe CreativeSmartphonesCommunication Technology Author:Jason Silva
“While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.” YearsLittlesGovernmentPoliticalThreePoliticsLibertyFourSocietyThousandUnderstoodYears AgoThousand YearsStandstill Author:John Adams
“Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.” PeopleYearsMeanDifferentGovernmentSexPicksYears AgoNosesSwear Author:Kate Winslet
“Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.” YearsGovernmentBitsMoneyLordYears AgoThirdsTwenties Book:The Will Rogers book Source: The Will Rogers book
“Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.” MenYearsSelfGovernmentRunningTogetherReligiousPrinciplesEqualYears AgoOppositesSacredDespiseCan NotDeclarationEightyDeclaringSelf-government Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now.” YearsGovernmentMillionsEvolutionEatingYears AgoDoctorsAssumingSpeciesFruitFishesMeatDietsAcquireNutsVegetablesAssociationAncestorBalancedPhysiologyEating MeatBalanced Diet Author:Lionel Tiger
“The question is, do we have a shadow government? And, if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is -- that is guiding us through? And where are they guiding us to? If you skip past all of the puppets and the strings, if you stop looking at the puppets themselves, you have to see who's behind the puppets. Who is choosing the puppets and the players? Who's the puppet master? George Soros.” IfsYearsTwoGovernmentPastBehindsPlayerMastersTheoryShadowYears AgoCriticismIntelligentHonestlyMinoritiesTwo YearsStringsConspiracyPuppetsSkipConspiracy TheorySelf CriticismTwo Years AgoPuppet Master Author:Glenn Beck