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We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
Sergey Brin
Freedom
People
World
Seen
Power
Down
Medium
States
Seeing
Web
Attack
Like
Massive
Korea
Italy
Governments
North
Trying
North Korea
Just
China
Places
Realizing
Across
Organize
Bills
United
United States
When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that they can invest in social protection and in the health and education of their people, they cede control to corporate greed.
Sharan Burrow
Education
Health
Rights
People
Protection
Care
Greed
Control
Corporate
Ensure
Invest
Simply
Governments
Labour
dont Care
Human
Tax
Social
Enforce
Paid
Fundamental
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
Sharan Burrow
Day
Oppression
Corrupts
Corporations
Alike
Trade
Governments
Dictators
Survive
Modern
Modern-Day
To Survive
Including
Slavery
Many governments and corporations take no moral responsibility for the enslavement of migrant workers and freely do business with states built on the back of slave labour. Illicit financial flows and tax evasion are ignored in the interests of some nations and their corporations, stripping the tax base that is so vital for essential services.
Sharan Burrow
Business
Financial
Responsibility
Moral Responsibility
Back
Corporations
States
Enslavement
Stripping
Moral
Vital
Some
Take
Freely
Built
Governments
Labour
Essential
Nations
Tax
Migrant
Workers
Interests
Ignored
Many
Evasion
Base
Services
Slave
Flows
Governments that fail to provide jobs to those who are willing and able to work begin to lose their legitimacy and will face the anger of the electorate.
Sharan Burrow
Work
Anger
Will
Face
Lose
Those
Jobs
Willing
Able
Fail
Provide
Governments
Begin
Legitimacy
Electorate
Who
I look back at history, and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions.
Sherrod Brown
History
You
First
Unions
Back
Worst
Some
Had
Know
Look
First Things
Trade
Trade Unions
Governments
Did
After
Ever
Things
I guess for every government - for many governments, they only have short vision, they only have three-year term or a four-year term. So they have to make sure they get enough support from the voter. So they probably have to deal with more short-term issues which are related to being re-elected.
Shi Zhengrong
Government
Vision
Every
Enough
Related
Guess
Three-Year
More
Only
Support
Re-Elected
Term
Voter
Make
Sure
Deal
Issues
Governments
Get
Short
Being
Which
Short-Term
Many
Four-Year
In South, getting admission in SSN is not possible just because someone is my relative. One of the ministers said SSN is the only institution where I can't get a seat for anyone. That's true of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi governments, too.
Shiv Nadar
Too
Relative
Possible
Ministers
Admission
Someone
Delhi
Only
True
Institution
Because
Said
South
Governments
Get
Getting
Just
Where
Just Because
Anyone
Seat
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.
Simon Mainwaring
Great
Democracy
Political
Thinking
Thomas
Philosophers
Way
Locke
Citizens
John
Constitutional
Brought
John Locke
Between
Sharply
Concept
However
Contract
Governments
Political Thinking
Hobbes
Republicanism
Social
Century
Social Contract
Paving
Who
Popular
I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Experience
Sometimes
Old
Own
Responding
My Own
Only
Environment
Indonesia
New
Operate
Course
Still
Governments
Situations
The Only Thing
Which
Regime
Clumsy
Transition
Thing
Awkward
Economic success without accountability and social inclusion is not sustainable, and new governments often must face tough choices in order to protect the poor and vulnerable.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Success
Face
Tough
Accountability
Must
Tough Choices
Economic
New
Protect
Vulnerable
Without
Governments
Often
Order
Sustainable
Social
Poor
Choices
Inclusion
Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Time
Age
Old
Old Age
Enterprise
Facets
Rely
Over
Come
Look
Protect
Private
Private Enterprise
Governments
After
Them
Europeans
Clean energy jobs can exist across the state and create micro-economies to support struggling communities. Local governments can use advanced energy to retrain workers and create local jobs, and the positive economic impacts can remain local.
Stacey Abrams
Positive
Energy
State
Local
Local Governments
Jobs
Impacts
Economic
Struggling
Remain
Clean
Clean Energy
Advanced
Support
Exist
Governments
Create
Workers
Across
Use
Communities
I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments.
Stellan Skarsgard
Man
Peace
World
Be A Man
Diplomats
Most
Make
Governments
Wanted
Realise
Who
Travelled
From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
Stephane Hessel
Mistakes
Big
Settlement
Occupation
Territories
Making
Israeli
Continue
Governments
Two
During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call 'neo-liberal' principles: budget cuts, privatization, deregulation of business, and incentives for foreign companies. This campaign sparked bitter resistance and ultimately collapsed.
Stephen Kinzer
Business
Latin
States
Latin American
Collapsed
Bitter
Embodied
Budget
Budget Cuts
Call
Principles
Sought
Foreign
Impose
Ultimately
Campaign
Governments
Privatization
American
Cuts
Deregulation
Incentives
Companies
Washington
United
United States
Consensus
Resistance
Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.
Stephen Kinzer
Own
Arabs
Rise
Share
Leaders
Accepting
Governments
America
Elect
Means
Militancy
Right
Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
Stephen Kinzer
Only
Economic
Ideological
Governments
American
Interests
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don't conform to the tastes of Upper West Side intellectuals? Use human rights as your excuse!
Stephen Kinzer
Government
Rights
People
World
Poverty
Country
Build
Military
Human Rights
Side
Resources
Muslims
Support
Excuse
Undermine
Because
Around
West
West Side
Governments
Up
Intellectuals
American
Tastes
Upper
Human
Want
Conform
Poor
American Military
Use
Your
Bash
Raising
When Ronald Reagan was elected president for his first term in 1980, he received strong support from the so-called Sagebrush Rebels. The Rebels wanted lands owned by the federal government to be transferred to state governments.
Steve Hanke
Government
Strong
First
President
State
State Governments
Strong Support
Federal
Federal Government
He
Support
Term
First Term
Reagan
His
Governments
Owned
So-Called
Wanted
Transferred
Ronald Reagan
Elected
Lands
Rebels
Received
Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based.
Sue Gardner
Censorship
Internet
Made
Important
Think
Increasingly
Wikipedia
Corporate
Unaccountable
Seeing
Web
Open
Important Decisions
Industry
Shift
Mobile
Governments
Hands
Experienced
Decisions
Groups
Gardens
Players
If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.
Suharto
Change
Constitution
Will
Long
Our
Adhere
Firmly
Frequently
Governments
Last
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Nature
World
Human Nature
Rules
Governments
Human
Regimes
I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
Taki Theodoracopulos
Democracy
Better
Will
Everything
Rules
Diminishing
See
More
Governments
Getting
Getting Better
Legislation
Eventually
I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
Tariq Ali
Change
Big
Powers
Accept
Affects
Governments
Interests
Right
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
Thomas P. Campbell
Government
Financial
Pressure
Financing
Budgets
Governments
Dependent
Cut
Moment
European
Museums
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