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Government Quotes
"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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"I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution."
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"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."
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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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"Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."
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"This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval."
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"The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect."
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"After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country."
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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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"But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place."
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"All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government."
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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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"He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor."
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"The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself."
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"You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president."
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"If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets."
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"If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief."
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"Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies."
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"The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread."
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"The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing."
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"The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them."
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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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"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."
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"If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."
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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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"Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax."
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"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
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"So government acts as a safeguard of our property."
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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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"Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it."
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"The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects."
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"People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them."
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"We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate."
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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
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"So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it."
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"Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further."
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"I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend."
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"I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen."
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"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
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"This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances."
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"Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely."
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"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
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"In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants."
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