Hank Johnson Quotes
Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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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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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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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 Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.
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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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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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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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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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These voices blame the Middle East's only democracy for the region's extremism. They offer the false promise that abandoning a stalwart ally is somehow the path to strength. It is not, it never has been, and it never will be.
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There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.
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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
