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Government Quotes
"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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"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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"We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama."
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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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"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."
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"Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment."
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"Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work."
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"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
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"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right."
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"It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government."
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"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
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"When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government."
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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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"I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year."
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"If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code."
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"Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline."
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"The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated."
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"We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids."
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"That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government."
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"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."
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"Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means."
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"I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here."
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"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell."
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"No, our greatness does not come from our government."
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"In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763."
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"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom."
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"They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt."
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"Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not."
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"I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles."
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"In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after."
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"Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it."
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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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"If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too."
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"And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties."
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"Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government."
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"Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make."
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"Aggression is simply another name for government."
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"We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens."
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"The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs."
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"Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing."
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"The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order."
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