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Government Quotes
"I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there."
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"So government acts as a safeguard of our property."
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"We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government."
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"In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact."
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"Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government."
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"Aggression is simply another name for government."
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"You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government."
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"Ethics in government has always been important to me."
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"I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy."
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"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."
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"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men."
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"The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy."
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"I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future."
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"I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution."
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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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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
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"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote."
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"A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero."
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"We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations."
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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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"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
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"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."
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"The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice."
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"As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently."
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"With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests."
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"There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade."
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"Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing."
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"While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners."
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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
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"We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution."
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"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."
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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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"I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now."
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"Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards."
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"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way."
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"The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time."
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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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"There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government."
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"Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government."
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"The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost."
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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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"It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term."
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"This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you."
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"I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with."
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"In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president."
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"After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country."
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"Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago."
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