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Government Quotes
"The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law."
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"I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you."
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"If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong."
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"When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years."
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"If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell."
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"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government."
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"Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years."
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"Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed."
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"Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah."
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"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."
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"The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be."
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"Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press."
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"Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here."
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"I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation."
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"The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States."
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"We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters."
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"The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America."
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"I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done."
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"I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic."
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"The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way."
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"I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could."
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"I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less."
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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 principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not."
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"Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option."
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"The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan."
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"But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government."
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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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"Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner."
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"There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point."
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"You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government."
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"Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen."
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"THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government."
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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
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"I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement."
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"There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government."
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"It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people."
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"The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government."
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"I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."
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"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises."
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"Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq."
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"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all."
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"What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do."
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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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"We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces."
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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
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"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."
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"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything."
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"The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government."
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