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• Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Ignorance, Government

• The thing which amazes me is that I know perfectly well, as a historian, that there is corruption in any government – there’s always corruption. It’s bad when it’s more than fifteen percent.

  Michel Brunet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Corruption

• Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the Government that he is like the town tart who has finally married the mayor.

  Beverley Baxter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Little

• The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government, Legalized

• The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government, Patriot

• Religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Great, Government

• I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won’t believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

  William Hague

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parties, Government

• You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• In American politics, ‘Europe’ is usually a code word for ‘big government.’

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Europe, Government

• Government will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – their own population.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

  Topics in Enemy, Technology

  Tags in Government, Primary, Combat

• Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• The only good government…is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

  Joyce Cary

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

  Peter Albert David Singer

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizens, Government

• As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government, Anarchy

• When great questions end, little parties begin.

  Walter Bagehot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• The levels of poverty in 1933’s rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty, Government

• People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

  Arlen Specter

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Government, Around, Speed

• The government’s desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn’t give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Must, May