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Government Quotes
"The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression."
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"I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want."
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"In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens."
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"The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government."
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"Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are."
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"To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained."
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"Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."
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"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."
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"Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner."
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"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."
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"The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government."
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"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."
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"Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights."
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"I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also."
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"You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive."
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"Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government."
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"Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today."
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"The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted."
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"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."
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"That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due."
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"The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition."
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"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
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"When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition."
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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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"People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix."
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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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"Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved."
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"I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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"I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government."
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"The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out."
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"The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home."
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"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government."
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"The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation."
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"It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me."
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"We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives."
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"In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this."
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"I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right."
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"I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. 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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"I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it."
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"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied."
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"The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought."
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"The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation."
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"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."
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"What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation."
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"When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing."
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"Good ideas are the backbone of good government."
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"The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives."
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"One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I."
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"The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time."
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