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Government Quotes
"The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government."
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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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"Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery."
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"The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought."
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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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"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government."
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"I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat."
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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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"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."
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"Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House."
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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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"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."
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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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"Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about."
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"If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you."
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"The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large."
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"The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose."
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"I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again."
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"We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada."
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"And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode."
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"The weather is like the government, always in the wrong."
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"The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same."
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"So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy."
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"The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place."
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"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology."
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"It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us."
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"'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that."
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"Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system."
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"What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government."
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"We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support."
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"We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them."
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"In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office."
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"It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing."
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"No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government."
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"There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis."
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"Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls."
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"Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research."
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"I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion."
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"The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral."
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"State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy."
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"The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters."
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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 impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."
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"My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims."
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"ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government."
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