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Government Quotes
"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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"Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes."
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"A government is for the benefit of all the people."
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"We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform."
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"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
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"I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives."
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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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"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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"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."
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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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"Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents."
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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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"I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal."
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"The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom."
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"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament."
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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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"We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States."
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"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches."
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"It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me."
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"If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works."
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"As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."
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"Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament."
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"We must be loyal to the forum of our government."
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"Government cannot be all things to all people."
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"It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you."
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"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
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"The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law."
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"I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican."
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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
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"The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate."
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"I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone."
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"What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do."
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"And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube."
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"All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government."
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"Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago."
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"You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president."
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"The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread."
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"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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"The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government."
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"We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do."
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"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may."
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"Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?"
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"The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens."
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"You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights."
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"The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself."
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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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"Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government."
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"The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy."
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"But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government."
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