Mackenzie King Quotes
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.
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What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
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The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
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The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.
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The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.
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I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
