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Government Quotes
"With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session."
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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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"The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?"
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"I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government."
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"No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor."
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"What Washington needs is adult supervision."
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"Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing."
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"Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people."
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"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied."
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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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"There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government."
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"There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government."
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"I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers."
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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
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"If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible."
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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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"I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now."
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"This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens."
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"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
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"But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right."
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"They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government."
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"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation."
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"The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts."
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"This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs."
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"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"
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"Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to."
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"The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the government. In the long run, we would be better off without federal funding."
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"Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before."
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"The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill."
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"It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term."
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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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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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"But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives."
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"I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice."
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"The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing."
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"Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true."
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"So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government."
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"Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter."
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"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes."
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"For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream."
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"The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means."
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"Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad."
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"There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control."
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"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed."
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"When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future."
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"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."
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"Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away."
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"Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens."
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"No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
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"We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole."
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