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Government Quotes
"We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo."
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"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight."
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"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all."
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"What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted."
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"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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"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others."
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"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes."
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"A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government."
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"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government."
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"It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose."
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"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
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"Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people."
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"As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently."
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"I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself."
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"We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government."
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"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
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"But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government."
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"As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream."
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"He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department."
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"Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm."
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"Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House."
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"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."
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"In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color."
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"When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal."
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"A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward."
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"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government."
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"Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away."
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"In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office."
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"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
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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 secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters."
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"Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty."
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"Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."
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"We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility."
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"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."
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"I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there."
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"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
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"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
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"Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't."
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"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."
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"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
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"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived."
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"Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God."
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"I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property."
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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"
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"I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future."
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"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."
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"All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis."
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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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