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For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.