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"Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other."
"While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader."
"Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around."
"This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible."
"Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates."
"Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence."
"There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished."
"While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for."
"Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself."
"It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him."
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