Government Departments Charged

Famous quotes containing the words government, departments and/or charged:

    “Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.”
    —Bernard Devoto (1897–1955)

    “Some of these men had become abstrusely entangled with the spying departments of other nations and would give an amusing jump if you came from behind and tapped them on the shoulder.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Luna presence,
    foredoomed, already dying,
    it charged the room
    with plangency

    older than human
    cries,”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)