I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. Edward Snowden
2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction. Matt Taibbi
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order. Jürgen Habermas
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America. Bianca Jagger
We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States. Kim Jong-il
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight. Umberto Guidoni