Government Quotes
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I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
Andrew Mango
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
John Locke Nazareth
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What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
Thomas Sowell
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If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.
Bill Clinton
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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Abraham Lincoln
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Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
Ernie Fletcher
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In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.
Walter Schellenberg
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There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.
Eben Moglen
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
John Maynard Keynes
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Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?
Richard M. Daley
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It's really weird watching the government watch me.
Hasan M. Elahi
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The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
Jonathan Mayhew
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
Tony Abbott
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In the government, we have a very important responsibility to protect the rights of our pastors and religious leaders. They have the freedom to speak out about what they believe, without fear of repercussions from their very own government.
Steve Daines
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We are talking about security lines that we will begin planning after the government is formed, along with coalition partners and in co-operation with settler leaders.
Avi Dichter
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It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
Todd Akin
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Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
Sidney Blumenthal
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I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.
Bill Gates
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One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... Having someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.
Thomas Sowell
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I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Well, the sugar guys have been dealing with NAFTA ever since it passed. Now we've got Mexico dumping sugar that's subsidized by the Mexican government into our market in violation of the World Trade Organization, because NAFTA gave them open access to our sugar market. They claim they're not subsidized, but the government owns half the industry in Mexico.
Collin Peterson
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Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
Nigel Calder
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Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches.
Evan Osnos
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The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.
Mike Crapo