Jacque Fresco Quotes

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

We cannot long protect liberty if our leaders continue to act like mere bystanders in the work of government.

The government and the Party are always blaming the comrades doing local work but never themselves, always seeing their own achievements but never their own shortcomings, and always welcoming flattery but never criticism....

Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!

I think it is absolutely reprehensible to believe that any member of this House, Democrat or Republican, would want to do anything that would jeopardize the ability to find out exactly what happened leading up to hurricane Katrina and exactly what happened in the aftermath.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

It remains the task of governments to implement the fundamental human rights standards which should influence all aspects of globalisation, including even trade talks, and to be answerable for this in a democratic way. The structure is international, but the accountability is national and I would like to see that accountability being more penetrating at regional and local level, especially in federal systems.

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.

Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.