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Government Quotes
"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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"Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here."
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"I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic."
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"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God."
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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it."
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"People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them."
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"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right."
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"No matter what your religion, you should try to become a government program, for then you will have everlasting life."
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"A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity."
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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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"Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government."
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"Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion."
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"I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high."
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"The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited."
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"There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement."
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"So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations."
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"It's inevitable that the company come back."
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"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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"It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people."
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"As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly."
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"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
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"What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it."
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"How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?"
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"We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target."
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"We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down."
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"A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both."
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"As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly."
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"I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave."
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"How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things."
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"We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition."
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"I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'"
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"The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not."
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"Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them."
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"Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves."
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"The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire."
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"The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government."
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"It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience."
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"The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America."
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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
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"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
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"My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government."
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"What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work."
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"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
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"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
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"I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies."
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"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia."
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"It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual."
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"Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government."
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
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