Government Quotes
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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley -
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.
James Cook
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Alwasy 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 -
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 -
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
Michael Mandelbaum -
The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.
Carrie Chapman Catt -
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.
Ezra Taft Benson -
I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.
Benjamin Carson
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Tony Blair -
They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.
Richard Serra -
Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
Merrick Garland -
Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
Steve Earle -
I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.
Steny Hoyer
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I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values or the commitment of the American government or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values.
Rex W. Tillerson -
The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees that. The only force capable of undermining it is government.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.
Tim Pawlenty -
The government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families in accordance with their faith, with medical advice. And I will stand up for that right.
Hillary Clinton -
We told each other every funny story we could think of. One of them stays in my mind. A German citizen wants to commit suicide. He tries to hang himself, but the rope is of such a poor quality that it breaks. He tries to drown himself, but the percentage of wood in the fabric of his pants is so high that he floats on the surface like a raft. Finally he starves to death from eating official government rations.
Edith Hahn Beer -
Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.
Charles Frankel
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Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.
Robert Wyatt -
Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel... America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored church.
Ezra Taft Benson -
I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.
Todd Akin -
Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
James Cook