Government Quotes
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It is important to stand up and say the government is wrong.
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We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.
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Conservative concepts believe in little government - take care of yourself, and that makes men who invent things like the constitution! Liberal thought has big government - we'll take care of you - and that creates boys and they create things like Occupy Wall Street! There's a difference between the way men and boys behave.
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I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.
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The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.
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Our government depends upon the rule of law.
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The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.
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I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.
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There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.
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I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
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Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
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Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').
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The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
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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.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.
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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.
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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.
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The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.
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You can't say you love your country and hate your government.
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Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. Saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!
