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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“If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.” -Herbert Hoover
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“Government is force, pure and simple. There’s no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society – people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.” -Harry Browne
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“Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.” -Michael Badnarik
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“In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.” -Peter Singer
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“A government must not waiver once it has chosen it’s course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.” -Otto von Bismarck
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“The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.” -Robert Anton Wilson
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“Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government’s justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?” -Thomas Frank
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“It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.” -Wendell Willkie
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“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.” -William O. Douglas
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“We have mountain of debt that isn’t going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.” -Rick Santelli
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“Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.” -John Maynard Keynes
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“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.” -Joe Biden
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“Clinton’s successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.” -Tony Campolo
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“A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.” -Spiro T. Agnew
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“I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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“Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they’re purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let’s get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of – innocent citizens.” -John Mica
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“Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it’s not bestowed on you by the royal family, it’s not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.” -Rod Stewart
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“Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.” -Edward Gibbon
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“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.” -Vaclav Havel
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“This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.” -Dee Dee Myers
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“Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.” -David Attenborough
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“What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.” -Mark Levin
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“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.” -Daniel Webster
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“We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can’t even run our own government.” -Glenn Beck
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“Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.” -Herbert Spencer
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“One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.” -Ron Fournier
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“It’s the federal government’s job to secure the border.” -Carly Fiorina
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“If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.” -Elizabeth I
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“Government shouldn’t tell you whom to marry.” -Michael Bloomberg
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“I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.” -Herman Cain
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“I think the country’s getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.” -George McGovern
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“By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.” -John Podhoretz
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“Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.” -Charles Horton Cooley
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“The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.” -Jeremiah Wright
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“I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It’s a cruel and evil government.” -Doris Lessing
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“The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.” -Geronimo
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“Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.” -Lord Acton
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“I’ve always been about less government.” -Kelly Clarkson
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“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.” -Mary Astell
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“The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.” -James A. Garfield
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“Man, I don’t want to have nothing to do with computers. I don’t want the government in my business.” -Erykah Badu
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“Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest, their holding too much money. We haven’t heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody’s afraid of the government and there’s no need soft peddling it, it’s the truth. It is the truth.” -Steve…
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“A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.” -Al Gore
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“I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.” -William J. Clinton
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“And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves… when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.” -John Boehner
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“Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.” -Ralph Nader
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“The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.” -Steve Allen
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“Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don’t mind big government.” -Rick Santorum
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“When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.” -Bono
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“The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.” -Andrew Johnson
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“I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.” -David Cameron
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“We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.” -Rick Perry
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“Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.” -Simon Mainwaring
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“It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.” -William E. Gladstone
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“The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.” -Ibrahim Babangida
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“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” -Frank Herbert
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“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.” -Sam Houston
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“History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.” -Vladimir Putin
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“To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.” -Louis D. Brandeis
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“I wasn’t a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn’t written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.” -Madeleine Albright
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“The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.” -Mia Love
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“All that a good government aims at… is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.” -James F. Cooper
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“There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people’s money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.” -Steve Forbes
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“I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.” -Oliver Cromwell
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“Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.” -Pete Stark
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“The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.” -Mike Pence
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“It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.” -James Bovard
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“The relationships that people have – that are sexual, psychological, emotional – these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.” -Madalyn Murray O’Hair
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“The thought about Republicans is, we’re supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.” -Pat Robertson
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“If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.” -Lysander Spooner
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“We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.” -Marco Rubio
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“But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.” -Jeb Bush
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“Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.” -Jeremy Bentham
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“The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he’d like to help, but he’s pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.” -Conan O’Brien
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“Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility.” -Dalton Trumbo
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“There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.” -Arthur C. Brooks
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“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.” -William Ellery Channing
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“Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.” -Xenophon
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“The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.” -William Jennings Bryan
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“Good government is the outcome of private virtue.” -John Jay Chapman
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“Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.” -Denis Diderot
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“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.” -Russell Means
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“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.” -Noah Webster
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“Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as ‘£10 poms.’ Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians – to be honest, educated white people – to come and live…
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“Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.” -John Foster Dulles
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“And you can’t have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can’t be done.” -Arthur Laffer
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“Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.” -Grover Cleveland
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“It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.” -Jimmy Carter
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“The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.” -Golda Meir
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“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” -Frederic Bastiat
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“As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.” -Stephen Fry
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“Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it’s bold. It’s out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it’s hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.” -Newt Gingrich
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“The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country.” -Edward Abbey
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“It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.” -Andrew Jackson
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“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.” -Martin Van Buren
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“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.” -Will Durant
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“The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.” -Jerome K. Jerome
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“Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.” -Jenny McCarthy
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“The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.” -James Monroe
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“Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.” -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.” -Norman…
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“I think its rather peculiar. It’s not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I’d guess you’d have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to…
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“Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.” -David Hume
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“I didn’t do improv in college, I never performed, I didn’t do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.” -Demetri Martin
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“Government workers often get a bad rap, but it’s rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.” -Matthew Lesko
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“The government’s view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn’t want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.” -Bob Schieffer
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“In a very weak economy, when you say ‘cut government spending,’ what you mean is you’re laying off school teachers and you’re de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don’t pay taxes.” -Fareed Zakaria
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“So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!” -Eddie Izzard
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“I don’t imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I’m not an economist therefore I can’t take decisions on matters of the economy I’m not a soldier I can’t take decisions on matters of defence I’m not an educationist so I can’t take decisions about education.” -Thabo Mbeki
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“But then it hasn’t really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.” -Maynard James Keenan
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“Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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“I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don’t trust government. And they haven’t trusted government for a long time.” -Claire McCaskill
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“I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.” -Jerry Garcia
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“The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.” -John Stuart Mill
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“I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.” -Martin Feldstein
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“I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it’s the government’s role to provide everything.” -Rick Warren
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“In the inner city, there’s a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I’ve gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.” -Mary J. Blige
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“Government stimulates the democrat party.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.” -Vladimir Lenin
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“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.” -Alan Keyes
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“Every country has the government it deserves.” -Joseph de Maistre
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“Most Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.” -Joseph Sobran
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“There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.” -Stokely Carmichael
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“We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.” -Zachary Quinto
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“Freedom of expression – in particular, freedom of the press – guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.” -Corazon Aquino
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“If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.” -Steven Spielberg
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“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.” -Grover Norquist
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“People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.” -George W. Bush
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“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” -Tom Robbins
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“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.” -John C. Calhoun
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“Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.” -Hugo Chavez
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“Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.” -Sheikh Hasina
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“Everything government touches turns to crap.” -Ringo Starr
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“Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.” -Louise Slaughter
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“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.” -Earl Warren
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“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.” -Tom Clancy
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“Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.” -B. R. Ambedkar
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“Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.” -James Madison
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“No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.” -Anatole France
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“No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.” -Buenaventura Durruti
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“If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.” -Carter G. Woodson
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“It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.” -Harry S. Truman
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“As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.” -Chief Joseph
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“The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn’t cost the government a dime.” -Andy Stern
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“When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.” -Adam Weishaupt
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“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” -James Russell Lowell
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“The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.” -Milton Friedman
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“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.” -William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.” -Colin Powell
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“And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.” -Sharron Angle
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“It’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.” -Alan Shepard
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“One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.” -Lee Iacocca
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“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.” -John W. Gardner
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“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.” -John Locke
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“Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don’t return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn’t want that to happen, would you.” -Andy Rooney
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“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.” -Thurgood Marshall
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“Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.” -Alice Walker
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“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” -Joseph Stalin
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