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"Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
"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."
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
"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."
"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
"The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility."
"I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'"
"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."
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"The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less."
"We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere."
"For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration."
"Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth."
"Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means."
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