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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

Sound, Will

"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics."

Politics, Truth

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."

Experience, Judgment

"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."

Government, Money

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

Funny, Life, Congress

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."

Love, Successful, Want

"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

People, Hollywood, Writing

"In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time."

Time, Day, Hollywood, Night

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

Money, People, Earth, Giving

"It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

Trouble,

Exlpore more Government quotes

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Government, Men, Christianity, Giving, Man

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Government, Man

"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."

Barack Obama, American President

Government, Family, Tax, Income, Taxes

"What Washington needs is adult supervision."

Barack Obama, American President

Government, Needs, Washington

"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."

Barack Obama, American President

Government, Business, Change, Time

"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Government, Education, Mind

"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

Barack Obama, American President

Government, Debt, Office, Waiting

"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

Barack Obama, American President

Government, Money, Reform, Will

"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."

Barack Obama, American President

Government, Politics, Success, Policy, Marketing

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Government, Country