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"The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it."
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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"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."

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

"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."

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

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
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"And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you."

"Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."

"We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city."

"Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis."

"Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need."

"Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card."

"You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen."

"I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge."

"These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run."
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