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• I mean, I really don’t want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.

  Peter King

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Government and Rule

• The government’s objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.

  Peter Fraser

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government and Rule

• A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government’s legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government and Rule, Responsibility

• If you’re going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Government and Rule

• I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he’s OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.

  Peter Brimelow

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Government and Rule, Action

• Open your newspaper – any day of the week – and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

  Peter Benenson

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Government and Rule, Opinion

• If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don’t go along to get along; do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else.

  Peggy Noonan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government and Rule

• Acid wasn’t getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

  Tommy Rettig

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Government, Government and Rule

• Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.

  Timothy McVeigh

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government and Rule

• The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

  William Beveridge

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Happiness, Government and Rule, Peace

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government and Rule, Tax

• Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

  Harry S. Truman

  Tags in Government and Rule

• At certain times of grave national stress, when that rag-bag called the British Constitution is in grave danger of coming unstuck, thank heaven for the big safety-pin at the top that keeps it together.

  Unknown

  Tags in Government and Rule