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"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."
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"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."
Defeat

"There is no pure free-market economy."
Economy

"I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest."
Power

"A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created."
War

"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."
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"I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions."
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"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."
Democracy

"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal."
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"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."
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"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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