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Government Quotes
"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."
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"It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment."
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"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."
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"Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance."
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"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."
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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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"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
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"Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal."
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"As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains."
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"Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality."
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"Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well."
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"The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK."
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"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
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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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"For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms."
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"But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form."
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"But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents."
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"Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't."
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"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."
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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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"We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids."
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"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia."
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"The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership."
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"Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government."
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"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."
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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 our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment."
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"The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies."
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"Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are."
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"However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable."
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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 don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend."
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"Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions."
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"You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs."
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"We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government."
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"The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented."
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"This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat."
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"The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own."
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"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place."
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"Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government."
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"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
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"My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep."
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"There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection."
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"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
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"I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals."
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"In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia."
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"The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government."
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"I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous."
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"Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later, --oftener sooner than late,-- is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows."
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"Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail."
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