Government Quotes
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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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The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.
Tim Robbins
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America's got to look after America again. That means taking a realistic appraisal of who is actually at risk in this country, not whining feminists, or whinging Black Lives Matter activists, but gay people and women at risk from Islam. Also, so people in this country who have been treated badly, lied to and lied about. An honest appraisal of who actually needs government attention in this country. And when all of that is done, then we can think about interfering elsewhere again.
Milo Yiannopoulos
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The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
Geronimo
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High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.
Thomas Sowell
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No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.
Austen Chamberlain
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Will Durant
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Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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This is government. There is no entertainment.
Judy Davis
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The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.
Mia Love
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Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.
Bill Gates
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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
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The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
Milton Friedman
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Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
Merrick Garland
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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
Tony Abbott
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All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
Steven Hatfill
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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
Benjamin Carson
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Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.
Rick Perry
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It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.
Dennis A. Ross
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I'm all for Workers' Rights and stuff like that, that's fair enough. But imagine if you were working in a pub in some real rough-arse of inner-city North Dublin, ...and you're built like, say, me. And you've got to go up to some bloke who looks like he's been lured down from a mountain with a hunk of meat, and he's just trying to enjoy his 'post-fight' cigarette, and you've got to tell him to put it out. Somewhere in the back of your head you're going to be thinking "Oh, thank you so much to the government for looking after my health." Somewhere in the back of your head, where your nose is about to be.
Ed Byrne
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We are under government's control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.
Merle Haggard
