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Government Quotes
"The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'"
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"Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government."
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"Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve."
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"You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government."
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"In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment."
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"I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property."
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"We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens."
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"We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments."
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"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."
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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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"The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn."
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"We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision."
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"The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility."
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"The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government."
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"Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are."
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"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
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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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"Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home."
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"The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development."
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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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"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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"They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is."
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"The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy."
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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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"Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be."
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"The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power."
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"When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans."
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"And government's only role is to secure our rights for us."
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"The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start."
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"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks."
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"What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life."
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"Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish."
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"Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates."
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"The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted."
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"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others."
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"It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research."
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"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States."
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"Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion."
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"And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works."
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"Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal."
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"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
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"I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing."
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"And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds."
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"Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country."
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"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes."
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"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
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"Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality."
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