There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.
Any government is concerned whenever you have public demonstrations in large measure.
It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.
For a government of any party, and for every one of us, even one suicide is worrisome.
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.
On some level, there's a limit to what the government really worries about when it comes to a guy like Ai Weiwei, who's talking to a limited audience of people. He's talking to people who more or less already agree with him.
Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.
Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.
This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.
The prime minister was known to have had a serious problem with alcoholism.
The proud monuments of liberty knew that ... the Ruler of the universe would receive with equal benignity the various offerings of man's adoration if they proceed from an humble spirit and sincere mind; that intolerance in matters of faith had been from the earliest ages of the world the severest torment by which mankind could be afflicted; and that governments were only concerned about the actions and conduct of man, and not his speculative notions.
The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.
The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so antithetical to anything that would place the interests of human beings or the environment at the center of what ought to be a government concern - should stop. The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.