Rupert Murdoch (Keith Rupert Murdoch) Quotes
I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
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One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
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The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
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I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
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There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.
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I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.
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Nothing he could do or say would bridge the gulf because there was nothing here to appeal to. There was nothing here but anger and fear, things in themselves entirely sterile. Divorced from the love of righteousness, the fear of God, they were nothing. There was nothing here. He had not realized before the ghastly evil of negation. He had seldom felt such evil. Nothingness was a bottomless pit...
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I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
