Government Departments Charged

Famous quotes containing the words government, departments and/or charged:

    “It doesn’t matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.”
    —Graffiti. London (1970s)

    “Some of these men had become abstrusely entangled with the spying departments of other nations and would give an amusing jump if you came from behind and tapped them on the shoulder.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “I am trembling:
    I am suddenly charged with their language, these six strings,
    Suddenly made to see they can declare
    Nothing but harmony, and may not move
    Without a happy stirring of the air
    That builds within this room a second room....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)