Only two things ever stop the government from doing…

“Once a government resorts to terror against its own population to get what it wants, it must keep using terror against its own population…

— Michael Rivero

Unless you have the power to stop the government of Iran beheading teenagers for homosexual acts, there's not much to be done except deplore…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

We are no longer demonstrators. We are not actors, we are now people committed to the proposition that if the government won't stop the…

— David Dellinger

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

— Noam Chomsky

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of…

— John Prescott

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of…

— George Will

“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.”

— Ken Liu

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government…

— Walter Cronkite

I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now.

— Alex Chiu

People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing…

— H. L. Mencken

We have more families at risk with the death penalty. It targets the voiceless, the poor, people of color. And so it's important just…

— Susan Sarandon

We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in the next…

— Van Jones

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

— George Will

The only way we are held accountable is if people know what government is doing.

— Ted Wheeler