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"Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative."
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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
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"Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things."
"The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change."
"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."
"Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it."
"Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party."
"The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena."
"As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings."
"There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate."
"Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage."
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