Global warming is the biggest con job every created by bunch of statist who want more and more control of our lives and economy. (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)
Her chapters include a critical appreciation of today's enthusiasms about «civil society,» with perceptive warnings about the ways in which those enthusiasms can be turned against the necessary tasks of politics, and can also be hijacked by statists who would bring society's mediating institutions under government control. (firstthings.com)
Blairites tend to dismiss Brown's objections as primarily personal and tactical, and Blair believed Brown had a more statist approach, hence his reluctance to depart. (totalpolitics.com)