Neither the rich nor the poor have great interest in government. The rich can afford their own security … in their gated communities and their own information networks. The poor are usually so pushed against the wall that they do not have time for the mechanics of the government. If you lose the middle class, you lose democratic government.
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
We need to get young people excited about politics, excited about government.
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.
Train any population rationally, and they will be rational. Furnish honest and useful employments to those so trained, and such employments they will greatly prefer to dishonest or injurious occupations. It is beyond all calculation the interest of every government to provide that training and that employment; and to provide both is easily practicable.
Regardless of the strength of the government's interest [in protecting children,] the level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.
The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.
My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.
Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest.
It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.
It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
I think the government … has a very different interest. Usually in fact the opposite of what the people's interest is.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.
They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn't the slightest bit surprised.
