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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."
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"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."

"The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."

"I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990."

"The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals."

"If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city."

"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."

"If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds."

"Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts."

"Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government."

"Public influence is the real government of the world."
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"I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that."

"The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong."

"The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was."

"Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy."

"It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think."

"But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions."

"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."

"And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role."
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