History Quotes / TheGovernment

->A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned.
-->-- '''Shepherd Book''', ''{{Series/Firefly}}''

->'''Jubal Harshaw''': Well, who do you think did it?\\
'''Jill''': We ''know'' who did it, TheGovernment!\\
'''Jubal''': Jill, "the government" is several million people. You'll have to be a little more precise.

->You speak of "the government" as if it were a single, monolithic beast, with countless hands but only a single brain controlling them. Turn that vision around, Admiral. Perhaps you should consider how things would be if the government was in fact a creature with a single tremendous hand, but many brains trying to direct that hand in its powerful but clumsy efforts to do something, anything.

->It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

->Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is governed?

->The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

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->'''Sir Humphrey Appleby''': Surveillance is an indispensable weapon in the battle against organized crime.\\
'''James Hacker''': You're not describing politicians as organized crime?\\
'''Sir Humphrey Appleby''': No... well, disorganized crime too of course.
-->-- '''The Death List''', ''Series/YesMinister''

->'''Sir Humphrey Appleby''': Surveillance is an indispensable weapon in the battle against organized crime.
'''James Hacker''': You're not describing politicians as organized crime?

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--> '''[[UsefulNotes/ThePope Pope Julius III]]'''

--> '''[[ThePope Pope Julius III]]'''

-->-- '''Shepherd Book''', ''{{Firefly}}''

-->--'''Emissary Rione''', ''Literature/TheLostFleet''

->''"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned."''

->'''Jubal Harshaw''': Well, who do you think did it?
->'''Jill''': We ''know'' who did it, TheGovernment!
->'''Jubal''': Jill, "the government" is several million people. You'll have to be a little more precise.

-->-- ''StrangerInAStrangeLand''