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Government Quotes
"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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"A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people."
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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 Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million."
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"Some that read this book will find its Libertarian and Constitutionalist slant a bit obtuse and maybe even off-putting. This author makes no apologies for viewing the history of the eugenics movement from this political perspective. It is the ethical and legal underpinnings of the American Revolution that remain as a guiding light while the eugenics movement continues to reemerge long after its alleged demise. Limited, or rather minimal government, goes a long way to curtail the disconnect that emerges when government grows so large that it no longer feels compelled to heed to the dictates of the governed."
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"The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people."
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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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"A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism."
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"Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government."
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"Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations."
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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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"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people."
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"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."
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"I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right."
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"It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote."
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"The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that."
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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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"There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government."
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"Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of 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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"If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you."
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"But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care."
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"We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive."
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"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology."
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"As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything."
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"A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward."
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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
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"There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis."
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"Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research."
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"That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer."
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"One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue."
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"The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill."
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"Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons."
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"Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq."
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"If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race."
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"If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery."
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"We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government."
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"I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice."
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"I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want."
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"Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people."
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"One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation."
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"A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens."
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"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
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"I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge."
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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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"I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us."
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"You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices."
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"Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life."
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"The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means."
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