Government Quotes
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Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.
Bill Gates
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Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
James Cook
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Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
Thomas Woods
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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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There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world.
Susan Rice
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The federal government has a responsibility to address climate change. The federal government can continue to regulate corporations, tax polluters and incentivize the use of renewable forms of energy.
Juan Vargas
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Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.
Sherrod Brown
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Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
William Weld
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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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When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.
Arnold Kling
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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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Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
William Francis Buckley
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Why wouldn’t it be the government? It’s not like we have a perfectly operational terrorist group right here to do it.
Beth Revis
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I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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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
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On some level, there's a limit to what the government really worries about when it comes to a guy like Ai Weiwei, who's talking to a limited audience of people. He's talking to people who more or less already agree with him.
Evan Osnos
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The government has agreed to implement a clause in the agreement in relation to the paramilitary groups. This is a good sign.
Anton Balasingham
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
Tacitus
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The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
Hugo Black
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone
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I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.
Sarah Palin
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Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
Molly Ivins
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
William Jennings Bryan
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To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.
David Nasaw