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Government Quotes
"This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval."
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"But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with."
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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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"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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"I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen."
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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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"I don't like government, it's just that simple."
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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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"Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away."
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"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."
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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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"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."
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"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
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"The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government."
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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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"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes."
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"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
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"Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government."
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"I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something."
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"The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending."
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"I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run."
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"Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.'"
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"Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles."
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"Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan."
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"In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government."
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"The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world."
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"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong."
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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."
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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
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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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"That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil."
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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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"The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child."
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"Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical."
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"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body."
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"In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office."
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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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"You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government."
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"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."
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"Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility."
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"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France."
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"That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage."
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"The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise."
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"Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."
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"We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all."
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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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"Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation."
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"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."
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"A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes."
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