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Government Quotes
"The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled."
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"The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs."
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"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation."
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"So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia."
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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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"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government."
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"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
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"Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press."
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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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"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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"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
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"A government is for the benefit of all the people."
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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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"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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"Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it."
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"That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government."
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"As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars."
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"In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after."
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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 Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'"
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"Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness."
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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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"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."
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"Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'"
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"On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice."
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"Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws."
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"At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation."
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"The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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"What Washington needs is adult supervision."
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"If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also."
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"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."
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"It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you."
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"When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite."
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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
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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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"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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"I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen."
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"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it."
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"Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah."
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"Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls."
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"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."
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"I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."
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"We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government."
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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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"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
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"This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval."
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"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads."
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