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Government Quotes
"The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens."
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"I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America."
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"I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal."
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"An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects."
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"But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government."
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"Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government."
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"You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants."
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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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"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
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"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."
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"The government has once again made the right socially acceptable."
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"Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government."
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"There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it."
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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
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"The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots."
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"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States."
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"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect 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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"The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own."
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"If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else."
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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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"A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process."
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"I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card."
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"To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people."
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"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily."
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"Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom."
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"The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government."
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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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"Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats."
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"I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution."
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"I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime."
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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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"Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further."
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"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government."
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"They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt."
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"Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away."
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"The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists."
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"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income."
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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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"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."
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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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"The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state."
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"What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be."
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"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."
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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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"We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny."
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"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom."
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"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind."
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"What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability."
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"You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President."
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