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"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."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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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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"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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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City."
Experience

"I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda."
Debt

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

"We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty."
Love

"The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget."
Balance

"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."
Decision-Making

"It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach."
Fun

"You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China."
Money

"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."
People

"I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers."
Business
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