Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.
I believe that most people would like to cooperate in reducing waste, but to encourage them, the national policy should be clear, well advertised, and consistent. Even within Greater London, there is a huge discrepancy between council policies. I believe a national waste management initiative should be designed and implemented by government.
The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.
It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.
We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being 'spend cash mon-nay' rather than execute the Constitution.
Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country.
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.
I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
