Bruce Bartlett Quotes
It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands off their Medicare, they're fine with talking about low taxes. But once they start to realize that the Republicans really do want to not just cut Medicare, but essentially abolish it, you know, I just think those people are not going to be part of the Tea Party. They're going to be over with Occupy Wall Street.
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
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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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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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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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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
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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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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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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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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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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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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
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Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.
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Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
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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 announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.
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I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.
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It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands off their Medicare, they're fine with talking about low taxes. But once they start to realize that the Republicans really do want to not just cut Medicare, but essentially abolish it, you know, I just think those people are not going to be part of the Tea Party. They're going to be over with Occupy Wall Street.
