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Government Quotes
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."
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"It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'."
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"The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger."
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"As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden."
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"The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country."
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"Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere."
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"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."
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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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"But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense."
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"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
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"I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress."
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"The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain."
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"I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again."
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"I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution."
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"This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs."
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"The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same."
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"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."
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"The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea."
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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 case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a "public purpose.""
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"For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration."
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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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"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything."
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"Good government is the outcome of private virtue."
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"Public influence is the real government of the world."
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"Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government."
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"Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government."
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"It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern."
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"A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people."
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"By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe."
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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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"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're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers."
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"There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed."
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"She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood."
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"I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing."
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"The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq."
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"We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens."
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"While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor."
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"I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried."
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"Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T."
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"Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government."
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"There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government."
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"There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights."
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"And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode."
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"In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do."
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"If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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