Government Quotes
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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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We have pledged to be the greenest government ever. We must lead by example...We are not asking others to do things we will not do ourselves.
Charles Hendry
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In a democracy, if a government creates bad policies, it can be voted out of office. Competition in the private sector, however, can easily work to encourage phishing rather than stifle it.
Richard Thaler
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Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government, Barack Obama has reneged on his promises.
Nat Hentoff
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Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
George W. Norris
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I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.
Heather Wilson
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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.
Walt Whitman
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The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.
Mikhail Prokhorov
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The role of the government is not to solve religious or sectarian or ethnic problems. These are age-old. I don't think any government of the day can solve all differences. But the government of the day can deliver to our citizens and show our citizens that they are equal in front of the law.
Haider al-Abadi
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The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.
Evan Osnos
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There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.
George Eliot
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The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.
Carroll Quigley
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Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
Thomas Sowell
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I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
George Michael
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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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Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.
Herbert Spencer
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I never imagined I'd be working with government, or military or politicians or big companies. None of this stuff I'm doing was on any business plan anywhere ever.
Simon Sinek
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Always remember... We are engaged in a battle for the continuation of our capitalist, free-market economic model; our way of life; and our liberty. The enemy is anticapitalist, believes in big government, embraces collectivist ideologies, and has, over the past century, infiltrated every level of our government and most of the banking industry. They don’t care about patriotism, although they may sport the red, white, and blue and the stars and stripes on their bumper stickers. They don’t care about personal responsibility or civic duty. They don’t share your sense of honor. All they care about is power and control over your money and every aspect of your life.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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When the government decided that in the light of an increased security threat what London really needed was a smaller police force.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
Rick Perry
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Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.
Stuart Symington