Politics and Government
- Office of Commercial Space Transportation, a branch of the US Federal Aviation Administration
- Aviation Survival Technician, a United States Coast Guard rating
- Alaska State Troopers, the state police force for the State of Alaska
- Chadian Social Action (Action Sociale Tchadienne), a defunct Chadian political party
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Famous quotes containing the words politics and/or government:
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)