Quotes about Government

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

The London assembly's job is to scrutinise the mayor of London.

I think it's essential that we do more than talk about austerity measures and cutting.

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

I've endorsed 'Medicare for All' at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

Along with Trump, there are few people, on either the right or the left, who would defend the system. The system is, everyone believes, broken: it's an insider's game; it's totally fixed; it serves itself. Trump codified this into a simple and vivid idea: the swamp.