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"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency."
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"I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
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"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government."
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
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"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
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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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"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."
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"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."
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"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society."
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"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."
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"We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery."
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"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."
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"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."
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"So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency."
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"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies."
Government


"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."
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"To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them."
Power
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