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Government Quotes
"We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens."
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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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"The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people."
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"Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home."
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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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"A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care."
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"Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government."
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"Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government."
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"And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works."
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"Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake."
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"As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press."
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"Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government."
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"As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital."
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"Government is waging war against the people."
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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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"An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?"
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"We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing."
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"I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction."
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"I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government."
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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
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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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"This is government. There is no entertainment."
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"We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation."
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"I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away."
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"It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself."
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"The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains."
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"It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine."
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"No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our 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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"When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America."
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"This government has always said increasing pay is something for something."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile."
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"What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government."
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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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"I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'"
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"When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years."
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"Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years."
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"Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed."
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"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
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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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"To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions."
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"Good government is the outcome of private virtue."
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"My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing."
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"We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed."
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"I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church."
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