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Government Quotes
"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
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"The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'"
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"Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there."
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"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
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"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
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"Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right."
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"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."
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"I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought."
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"The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory."
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"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
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"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions."
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"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."
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"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
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"We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant."
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"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go ."
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"We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected."
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"Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result."
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"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government."
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"We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada."
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"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises."
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"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful."
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"Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored."
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"We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government."
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"A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process."
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"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities."
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"The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided."
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"Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force."
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"I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots."
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency."
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"We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government."
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"We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy."
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"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."
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"The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General."
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"You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this."
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"The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity."
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"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income."
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"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
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"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all."
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"The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics."
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"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."
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"I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America."
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"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none."
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"The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented."
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"The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly."
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"We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government."
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"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."
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"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
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