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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

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• My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Government
  • Turn

• I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Good
  • Think
  • Competition

• Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Government
  • Promise
  • Generation

• I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Government
  • Morning
  • Evening

• 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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Government
  • Conflict

• We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Government

• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Together
  • Competition
  • Labor

• God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • God
  • Government
  • Impossible

• A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Government
  • Independence

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Together
  • Government

• Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Society
  • Government
  • End

• Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Government

• European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Values

• There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • People
  • Government
  • Door

• The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Single
  • Government
  • Tax

• A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Government
  • Military

• We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Know
  • Government
  • Conflict

• A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • American
  • Government
  • Exercise

• I really enjoy playing a sex symbol, but it's not something I feel in real life. I'm much more of a natural girl at home.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Life
  • Real
  • Home

• North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Power
  • Black

• Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Heart
  • May

• I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That's when I know my soul is restless.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Soul

• As far as the music goes, I like melody.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Music
  • Melody

• Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Government
  • Competition
  • Jobs