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Government Quotes
"I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights."
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"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
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"Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does."
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"Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake."
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"Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq."
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"If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours."
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"We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area."
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"Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market."
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"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."
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"Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion."
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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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"The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way."
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"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."
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"Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government."
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"Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it."
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"I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America."
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"The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government."
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"This administration in Washington... clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make essential decisions for every American in every area. That mix of arrogance and audacity that guides the Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American."
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"The government has once again made the right socially acceptable."
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"America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up."
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"A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero."
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"Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny."
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"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
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"New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability."
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"Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words."
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"Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely."
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"In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States."
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"You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President."
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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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"The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled."
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"Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People."
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"First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons."
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"Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government."
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"Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government."
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"At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation."
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"In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people."
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"When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling."
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"The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home."
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"We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition."
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"I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990."
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"Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve."
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"The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket."
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"In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders."
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"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."
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"The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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"If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works."
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"The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession."
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"The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care."
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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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