Tony Blair Quotes
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
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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.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes?
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We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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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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The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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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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To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
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City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
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As far as the persona, I'm true to myself. Not because I'm arrogant, but I'm true to myself because I believe that you have to stand for something. When you start sacrificing that, even if it's just a line in a song or something you say on the mic at a show, or the way you treat someone when you see them out in public, that all reflects on who you are.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.
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A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
