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Government Quotes
"Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture."
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"In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances."
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"Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle."
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"It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free."
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"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
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"It is solely for the reason that this government has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington."
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"The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day."
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"Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it."
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"Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations."
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"Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority."
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"I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government."
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"Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier."
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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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"There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy."
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"Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts."
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"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
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"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense."
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"Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear."
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"But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer."
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"It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us."
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"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government."
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"We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support."
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"Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people."
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"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."
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"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
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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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"Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research."
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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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"And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government."
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"The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama."
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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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"There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation."
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"The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government."
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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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"Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly."
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"We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong."
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"If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was."
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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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"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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"The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government."
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"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed."
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"In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources."
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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."
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"We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo."
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"A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government."
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"As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself."
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"I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government."
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