Daily Government Quotes


  • We're not going to pull a blanket over our head and pee in our pajamas.
  • Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, in the wake of Gov. Scott Walker's win last week. He said his group would continue in much the way it did more than 50 years ago, when it had no bargaining rights.




  • Mental illness is the last illness that people talk about in whispers.
  • Linda Rosenberg, CEO of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, which helped bring the concept of Mental Health First Aid from Australia to America. State and local governments are grabbing onto the idea -- some even requiring the training for public employees.




  • These are cheap laws that can be passed to make people feel good.
  • Charles Ewing, author of “Justice Perverted: Sex Offense Law, Psychology, and Public Policy," referring to the increasing number of local laws banning sex offenders from certain public places, such as libraries, pools, beaches, parks and school bus stops.








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