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"I expect my next job to be outside government."
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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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"I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start."
Job

"I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference."
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"The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62."
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"You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions."
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"I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms."
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"I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed."
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"Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing."
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"I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution."
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"As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda."
Importance

"I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools."
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