"When government accepts responsibility for people,
then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
by:
George Pataki
Governor of NY
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Pataki is as greedy and monstrously unprincipaled as is the whole neo-con brigade. The times have changed since small populations and communities could tend to their own. In a huge capitalist monster like this one, there is no one interested in those who cannot fend for themselve for whatever reason -- incuding over 50,000 wounded vets from Iraq getting almost no help from the gov't that forced them to sacrifice their lives to turn Irag into Houston, Texas.
 -- daigu, nowheresville		 
The quote is spot on !
 -- Anonymous		 
That quote is spot on only for those who have enough of everything and can provide for themselves as I did for 40 years until disability prevented me from working. Now, attending to my mom who is 87 with Parkinson's and dementia, its all we can do to keep up rent, insurance and the bare necessities. Pataki and his kind would prefer, apparently to dispose of any not rich enough to take care of their own needs. Read the _Handmaid's Tale_ by Margaret Atwood. The opinion that such a quote is spot on is mired in the 18th c. "landed gentry" class. And here too, someday, there will be _real_ class warfare....
 -- kevin, levittown, pa.		 
 -- Greg Walton, Eustis, FL 
I agree with daigu, nowheresville, or whoever. A disgusting, unprincipled quotation by another ignorant governor.
 -- Dick Trice, Fort Worth		 
Comming from a man of a tremendous State wide nanny state, I'd say he's either a hypocrite or both that and someone who points out exactly he doesn't want. Then again it could always be...I'm ashamed that he has a Magyar name, he's so complacent for one of us.
 -- Gölök Z. L. F. Buday, Vancouver, BC(SU), USoEh!(USoA)		 
I agree with Kevin in PA. It's becoming a bit clearer that this site has an agenda to promote. Has anyone received 'mailed' quotes that aren't in this vein yet? I haven't.
 -- Terry Berg, Occidental, CA		 
Excellent sentiment--too bad many of the socialist respondents want to argue against the source of the quote, ad hominem. One race, human. One right, voluntary relations.
 -- Jerry Jones, Ayden, NC		 
If we had more people that believed in the idea that is in this quote, we wouldn't be nit picking at agendas. And we would live better lives.
 -- David Welch, Iraq		 
Of course we have an agenda -- promoting Freedom and the Responsibility that goes along with it. Each week of daily Liberty Quotes covers a particular theme. Check the quote Categories above for other quotes in the same vein. As far as Pataki goes, it is difficult to quote a politician -- even if they speak profound truths, they do so for their own purposes.
 -- Editor, Liberty Quotes		 
I think it is the depth of ignorance to attack the speaker instead of the words. What Pataki says has an ominous ring of truth to it. As to his personality, I have no idea and if one is to attack the speaker they should show evidence of their justification for so doing.
 -- John-Douglas, Nassau		 
I seem to recall that when Gov. Pataki first became a gubernatorial candidate in NY he took measures to protect his mother's money from possibly going to a nursing home in the future. True? I don't know but the rumor was persistent.
 -- A.R.Jurgensen, Stuart, Florida		 
It cannot be said that government does not have any responsibility to the people. It has the responsibility to protect their individual rights. However, because of the tremendous growth of the welfare state, and the concurrent insidious infusion of socialism into our society - not the least example of which is the government's acceptance of the responsibility for educating the populace - brilliant quotes like this are completely beyond the understanding of many people who see such sentiments only as a threat to their particular handout, meal ticket or government subsidy, and cannot therefore judge a concept on its own merits but only as it may influence their situation. Daigu and his cheerleaders are shining examples. It is a sad commentary on the state of our Republic that comments on the relationship between an individual and government are reacted to emotionally before they are understood. Good catch, whomever noticed that Pataki was governor of NY...
 -- Bill the Libertarian, Sarasota, FL		 
 
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