"If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible."

Government, Purpose, Defense

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"If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible."

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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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"But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense."

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"My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books."

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"Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud."

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"And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership."

Leadership

"Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that."

Growth

"I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself."

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"When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense."

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"If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble."

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"ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders."

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"I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles."

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