David Burge Quotes
When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.
David Burge
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
J. D. Vance
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
Lajos Kossuth
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
L. Neil Smith
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The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
Sal Albanese
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We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
Manmohan Singh
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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.
Ibrahim Babangida
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
Abraham Lincoln
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Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.
Ed Miliband
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When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.
Kajol
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Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.
Sam Kean
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A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.
Gary Pruitt
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There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. The content can never be disconnected from the surface, and this active interest in surface can never be disregarded from the good art that we admire.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.
David Burge
