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Government Quotes
"However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama ."
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"Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority."
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"You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state."
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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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"For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending."
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"It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet."
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"Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations."
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"If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets."
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"Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips."
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"Tell the Government, our people shall not starve."
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"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
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"South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government."
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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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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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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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"The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together."
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"I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures."
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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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"It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending."
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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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"With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings."
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"The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here."
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"We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds."
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"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
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"Government cannot and must not replace private initiative."
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"I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious."
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"The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people."
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"Government is waging war against the people."
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"The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country."
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"We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either."
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"If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government."
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"New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability."
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"The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests."
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"And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go."
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"Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?"
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"I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government."
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"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."
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"The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession."
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"The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care."
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"Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission."
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"I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things."
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"The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?"
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"New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the bargaining power we have as a big customer."
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"I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government."
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"History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state."
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"There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security."
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"The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts."
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"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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"We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties."
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"That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed."
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