Bill Gates Quotes
How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.
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What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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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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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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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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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
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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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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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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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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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And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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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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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.
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Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
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If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.
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How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.
