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  • How our government works... it doesn't.

    "Nothing's Sacred". Book by Lewis Black, March 22, 2005.
  • Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

  • Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

  • Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.

  • The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

    "The 5 Stages of Social Media Grief" by Brett King, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2010.
  • We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.

  • Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

    Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.103, Vintage
  • Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

  • The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

  • The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

  • The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's savvy enough to change his tune according to his audience and I don't know very much at all about how government works.

    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

    'The Soul of Man under Socialism'
  • We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

    Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.
  • Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.

  • WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

    War   Lying   Government  
    Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2012). “63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very powerfully influences how the government works and it of course influences corporate sector elements, like say how Google or Amazon present materials that reach the public.

    Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.
  • I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

  • The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly old men.

  • Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  • It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

  • Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

  • The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.

    Government   Today   Bigs  
    Barack Obama (2009). “The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance”, p.11, Penguin
  • I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

  • We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need to open our ears. The American people are not whispering to us. They are screaming to us. And they're screaming to us that it's our job to actually make this government work.It's so dysfunctional under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's so ineffective. It's so ineffectual that the American people say, we don't trust them to do anything anymore. So I'm not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees in this country.

    "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.
  • To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too.

  • Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

  • If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

    William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.213, Simon and Schuster
  • All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

    Government   Prey   Naive  
    "#MooreandMe: the hashtag that roared" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2010.
  • Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

    Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.22, Villard
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