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"Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament."
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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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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."
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"There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy."
Democracy
"Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance."
Rights
"I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals."
Question
"I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise."
People
"The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised."
Freedom
"And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech."
Hope
"It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards."
Health
"I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that."
Democracy
"Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy."
Policy
"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."
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