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Government Quotes
"To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement."
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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 am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land."
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"I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution."
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"Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government."
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"To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent."
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"Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions."
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"I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion."
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"We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't."
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"I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard."
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"How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?"
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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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"While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options."
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"The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort."
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"I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could."
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"A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government."
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"We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big."
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"There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat."
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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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"Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means."
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"Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance."
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"When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us."
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"A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained."
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"There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government."
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"This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans."
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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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"She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood."
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"I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the Republicans and Democrats, when they were trying to grow government and have spending and we weren't focusing on creating jobs and get our private sector growing again, I think that's when people started to wake up."
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"If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours."
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"The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens."
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"Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations."
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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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"It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society."
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"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
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"The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them."
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"Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves."
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"Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by."
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"But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska an incredible opportunity to expand its economy, especially at a time when our federal government is coming close to bankruptcy.So that is a broad-based appeal. It's not an extreme view."
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"The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion."
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"The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years."
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"We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems."
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"The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people."
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"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
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"Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?"
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"What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska."
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"I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world."
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"I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money."
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