The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.
Interpretation
Government officials cannot fully represent the interests of employees in discussions about their rights.
Franklin D. Roosevelt highlights the inherent limitations of government structures in representing the diverse needs and interests of government employees during negotiations. He emphasizes that the nature of government complicates the ability of administrative officials to effectively advocate for employee organizations and their concerns, reflecting a broader commentary on the disconnect that can exist between governmental authority and the workforce it governs.
In practice
In a discussion about labor rights during a conference on employee policies.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for your self or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature.
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? Itβs because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
Let's be clear: Voter suppression is real.
Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.
When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
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