State Oversight Quotes

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.

Cambodians dare do nothing of themselves without leave of the king, which is why Christians cannot be made without the king’s approval …. Nothing is done that the king knoweth not.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

The railroads saw that they must either accept control by the State of control the State.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

The Office of Attorney General should be independent and the Office of Attorney General should have the power to investigate without the approval of the governor of the state of New York. It's absolutely critically important.

No publication which appears in the form of daily issues, or as a serial not exceeding twenty sheets of printed matter, shall go to press in any state of the union without the previous knowledge and approval of the state officials.

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

No religious education may be imparted without the consent of the Government.

Chinese entrepreneurs have to implement their work under the leadership of the Party and the government - it is very clear.

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

You don't have to kill the economy to regulate it.

Most of our competitor nations around the world have a national education system and America is the only major nation in the world that operates off of local school boards. They receive very little direction from state boards of education or from the nation. So local school boards direct basically what happens and too often they're not willing to track or to do the supervision of the education system that will make it world competitive.

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.

From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.

I got to stick with what I know [about The Clinton Foundation]. I'm not an official of the State Department.

Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions.

As long as the [Communist] Party remains the ultimate source of wealth and power, its ability to police itself will determine China’s fate.

The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in New York under the state's own laws as well as under the U.S. Constitution.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

All schools will operate under the surveillance of the state. In order to obtain for Ottoman citizens an education of a homogenous and uniform character, the officials schools will be open, their instruction will be free, and all nationalities will be admitted.