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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government.
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
Problems in our country haven't been caused by Donald Trump, America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in a bad government system, the lack of free elections, independent courts and freedom of speech.
It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.
A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
'Freedom' means a lot to conservatives, but they have such a narrow sense of what it means. They think a lot about freedom from - freedom from government, freedom from regulation - and precious little about freedom to. Freedom to is absolutely something that has to be safeguarded by good government, just as it could be impaired by bad government.