Tony Snow Quotes
Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.
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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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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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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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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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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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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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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
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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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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been able to rebut.
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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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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
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In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
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You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
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I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That's when I know my soul is restless.
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Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.
