State Chartered Federal

Famous quotes containing the words state, chartered and/or federal:

    A functioning police state needs no police.
    William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    When he speaks,
    The air, a chartered libertine, is still.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated—serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)