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Government Quotes
"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."
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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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"As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy."
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"I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government."
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"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile."
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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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"Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government."
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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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"My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing."
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"I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church."
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"I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution."
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"We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform."
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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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"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."
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"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
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"Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security."
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"Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people."
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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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"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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"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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"And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, we started getting phone calls from government agents."
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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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"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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"It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government."
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"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."
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"There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational."
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"It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured."
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"Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule."
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"New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush."
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"I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."
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"A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care."
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"Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals."
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"The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility."
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"Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government."
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"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people."
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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
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"So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job."
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"We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either."
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"The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda."
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"I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in."
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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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"We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government."
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"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."
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"Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers."
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"America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to."
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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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"When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
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"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
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