What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector.
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.
My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.
Jacob Rees-Mogg gets his tummy tickled when the ERG threatens to vote against a government bill unless it is amended on policy.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
