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Government Quotes
"Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government."
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"On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice."
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"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
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"Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws."
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"What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability."
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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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"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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"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
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"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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"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 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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"In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government."
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"If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end."
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"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."
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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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"What Washington needs is adult supervision."
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"But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government."
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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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"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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"You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government."
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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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"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body."
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"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
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"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."
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"The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised."
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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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"I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials."
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"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads."
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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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"Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests."
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"I don't like government, it's just that simple."
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"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."
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"If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman."
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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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"There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair."
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"I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month."
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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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"Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government."
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"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
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"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it."
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"It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina."
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"And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people."
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"Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government."
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"In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States."
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"The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government."
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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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"The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people."
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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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"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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