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John W. Gardner

"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."

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Amber Hurdle

"The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together."

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"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

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Amber Hurdle

"A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both."

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"The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it."

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"This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs."

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Amber Hurdle

"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."

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Amber Hurdle

"The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order."

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"I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require."

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"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."
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"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
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"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."
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"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
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"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community."
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"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
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