government
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘government’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” -George Washington
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“Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.” -Lucy Powell
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“People create jobs, not the government.” -Scott Walker
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“The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded – in part because it impedes the government’s ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.” -Gary Bauer
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“For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.” -Vince Cable
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“If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what’s gone wrong, then you have to change your government.” -George Osborne
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“I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.” -Fawn Hall
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“I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.” -Lyn Nofziger
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“Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.” -Jesse Ventura
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“We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn’t.” -Tim Scott
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“It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.” -Ron Wyden
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“I don’t want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don’t want to be controlled by the U.S.” -Muqtada al Sadr
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“We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.” -Henry A. Wallace
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“I’m interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.” -Dave Eggers
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“Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.” -Isaac Watts
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“I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.” -Al-Waleed bin Talal
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“So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn’t gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.” -Monica Lewinsky
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“We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.” -Alan Dershowitz
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“Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?” -Mitch McConnell
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“Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.” -Bob Woodward
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“Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.” -Wendell Phillips
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“My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.” -George Weah
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“Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.” -James Dyson
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“You can’t fall back on the private sector and say, ‘You take care of the nation’s banking system.’ That’s a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.” -Dick Cheney
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“The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.” -Mitch Daniels
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“We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.” -Jay Weatherill
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“All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.” -William Henry Harrison
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“We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.” -Melina Mercouri
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“I’m very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I’m worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.” -Sarah Jessica Parker
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“Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they’d been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.” -Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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“I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn’t have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.” -Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want – and their kids pay for it.” -Richard Lamm
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“The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.” -Noam Chomsky
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“I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people’s lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.” -Clarence Thomas
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“You’ve got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.” -Jim DeMint
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“Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I’ve always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.” -Eddie Vedder
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“If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.” -Gary Hart
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“As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.” -Theodore Bikel
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“We don’t walk. We overeat because we’ve made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the ‘we’ is all of us. It’s not the government. It’s all of us doing this together.” -Mehmet Oz
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“I don’t consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.” -George Michael
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“Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.” -William Godwin
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“The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.” -Franklin Pierce
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“Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.” -Jeremy Rifkin
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“Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.” -Imran Khan
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“The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.” -John Bright
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“Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.” -Gouverneur Morris
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“The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.” -Arthur Scargill
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“Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.” -Tim Robbins
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“No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That’s a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.” -Kevin Mitnick
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“Let’s just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.” -Nancy Pelosi
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“If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work – because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.” -King Abdullah II
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“It’s not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.” -William Weld
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“I don’t have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.” -Curt Schilling
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“Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.” -Robert Taft
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“For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.” -Gerry Adams
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“As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government’s role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.” -Donald Evans
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“I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.” -Jane Fonda
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“My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.” -Jimmy Wales
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“There’s something fundamentally wrong with a system where there’s been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.” -Sean Connery
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“The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.” -Benazir Bhutto
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“In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.” -Jonathan Krohn
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“Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don’t trust the third one – the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.” -Shimon Peres
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“Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.” -Paul Tsongas
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“My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that’s the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that’s what I’m doing.” -Andrew Cuomo
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“Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.” -Hugo Black
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“If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.” -Loni Anderson
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“Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.” -Steve King
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“I almost forgot what it’s like to be proud of my government.” -Edward Norton
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“We’re adults. We’re the ones who should teach the kids what’s good to eat. I don’t think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we’re feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I’d rather feed them better food.” -Tom…
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“And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.” -Rafik Hariri
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“The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.” -Elihu Root
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“My house was bugged. They couldn’t find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don’t like some of the things the government is doing.” -Eartha Kitt
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“If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.” -Neal Boortz
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“Well, I’m a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.” -John Bolton
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“We’ve got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.” -Theresa May
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“As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.” -Pierre Beaumarchais
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“Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector’s work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.” -Mortimer Zuckerman
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“To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.”…
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“The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.” -Nigel Farage
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“The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.” -Sam Ewing
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“All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.” -Steven Hatfill
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“And some of what we’re doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.” -Patricia Hewitt
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“This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.” -John Wycliffe
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“One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.” -Vito Fossella
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“All’s the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.” -Adam Carolla
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“Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.” -Marsha Blackburn
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“Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all.” -Rosa Luxemburg
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“Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.” -Dan Rather
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“Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.” -Gerald R. Ford
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“It’s counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.” -John Sununu
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“We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.” -Rand Paul
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“Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.” -Tom Coburn
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“In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.” -Walter Lippmann
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“When the news is good, the BBC view is: ‘Get the government out of the picture quickly, don’t allow them to say anything about it.’ When the news is bad: ‘Let’s all dump on the government.’” -Iain Duncan Smith
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“The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.” -Rupert Murdoch
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“Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.” -Charley Reese
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“The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.” -Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.” -Ehud Olmert
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“Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.” -Leland Stanford
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“We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.” -Evan Davis
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“You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you’d have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.” -Karel Capek
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“Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don’t pay their taxes.” -Georgios A. Papandreou
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“Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.” -Norman Cousins
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“If you’re an old pro, you know how well you’re doing when you’re doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you’re not doing well.” -Jerry Lewis
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“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.” -George Lincoln Rockwell
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“We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.” -Jeff Miller
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“The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.” -Jonathan Kozol
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“When government disappears, it’s not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.” -Lawrence Lessig
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“If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don’t go along to get along do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else.” -Peggy Noonan
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“If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.” -Tommy Franks
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“I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that’s what the Tea Party was all about. It’s getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it’s also effective and efficient. I think that that’s…
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“It is the duty of Her Majesty’s government neither to flap nor to falter.” -Harold MacMillan
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“The only thing growing faster than the federal government’s deficit is Chris Matthews’ man-crush on Barack Obama.” -Tim Pawlenty
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“Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.” -Chris Chocola
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“We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.” -Jesse Jackson
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“As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.” -Drew Carey
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“Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I’ve been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That’s the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.” -Chris Christie
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“Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.” -William Lyon Mackenzie King
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“We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.” -Kim Jong Il
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“Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.” -John Jay Hooker
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“Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.” -Thomas B. Macaulay
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“A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.” -James Reston
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“I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.” -Sonia Sotomayor
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“We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops… and force migratory birds to stay where they are.” -Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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“I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.” -Martin Sheen
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“While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.” -Tim Holden
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“You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.” -Rob McKenna
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“We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.” -James McGreevey
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“I’m not driven to get back into politics. It’s not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I’ve been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.”…
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“The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.” -Eliot Spitzer
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“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.” -Thomas Francis Meagher
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“Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.” -Stafford Cripps
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“My politics are of a practical kind – the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.” -Winfield Scott Hancock
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“Aggression is simply another name for government.” -Benjamin Tucker
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“You can’t have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.” -Lawrence Summers
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“A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.” -George Grenville
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“I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.” -David Rockefeller
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“Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.” -John Updike
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“My mother’s sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.” -Buffalo Bill
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“Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn’t pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.” -Sarah Palin
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“If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.” -David Mamet
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“Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.” -Harold Pinter
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“Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn’t have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?” -Richard J. Daley
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“This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn’t like you.” -Kate Millett
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“People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.” -Cal Thomas
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“Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.” -James Buchan
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“I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.” -Brian Mulroney
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“The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.” -Diane Abbott
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“In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.” -Carroll Quigley
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“I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.” -Anthony Trollope
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“The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.” -Benjamin Netanyahu
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“If you seek Hamilton’s monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton’s country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.” -George Will
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“People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.” -Arlen Specter
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“Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn’t work for very long. It’s an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we’re building for Canada as a strong place to invest.” -Stephen Harper
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“I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.” -Ginger Baker
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“The government’s desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn’t give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.” -David Suzuki
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“When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war.” -Howard Zinn
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“The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.” -James Wolcott
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“Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.” -Tony Blair
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“Populism is not a style, it’s a people’s rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country – including our economy, government, media, and environment.” -Jim Hightower
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“Nobody is starving on the streets. We’ve always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government’s responsibility.” -Benjamin Carson
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“An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show here ankles to to get that job?” -Tina Fey
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“What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.” -Freeman Dyson
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“History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?” -Jon Meacham
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“Let’s be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.” -Alveda King
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“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” -William J. Brennan, Jr.
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“In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.” -Jeff Goodell
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“There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I’m not a criminal. The parole board knows I’m not a criminal. The judge knows I’m not a criminal.” -Jack Kevorkian
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“I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won’t believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.” -William Hague
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“I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.” -Alan Greenspan
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“Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You’re for them or against them. Taxes go up or down government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words ‘abortion’ or ‘tax hikes’ pass their lips.” -Ann Coulter
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“Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.” -Dennis Prager
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“Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.” -Sandra Day O’Connor
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“I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.” -George Deukmejian
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