Government
The Hong Kong Immigration Department has its headquarters in Immigration Tower in Wan Chai. The Hong Kong Police Force operates the Wan Chai District, headquartered at the Wan Chai Police District Headquarters at No.1 Arsenal Street, within the Hong Kong Police Headquarters Compound. Maggie Farley of the Los Angeles Times said in 1996, referring to the then Wan Chai Police Station, that the police headquarters was "a stolid, whitewashed building with square pillars and breezy verandas".
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“A government of laws, and not of men.”
—John Adams (1735–1826)
“All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)