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Government Quotes
"A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people."
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"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people."
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"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
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"We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government."
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"When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same."
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"With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session."
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"Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers."
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"In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party."
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"Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves."
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"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."
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"I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself."
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"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
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"If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere."
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"For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism."
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"Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm."
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"One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt."
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"If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system."
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"No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization."
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"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."
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"If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell."
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"It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to."
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"After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world."
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"The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States."
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"I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone."
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"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government."
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"The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more."
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"The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern."
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"Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all."
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"I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government."
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"One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man."
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"The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia."
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"When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government."
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"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
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"So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it."
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"We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program."
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"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent."
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"As a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it."
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"And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'"
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"Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government."
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"But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government."
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"There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control."
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"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight."
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"Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make."
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"We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments."
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"We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as."
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"We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system."
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"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
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"As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions."
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"When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower."
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"Rome was great in arms, in government, in law."
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