Government Quotes
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Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
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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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Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.
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Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
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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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Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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These modern means of communication are one reason why I recently opposed the Government's decision to grant MPs a new communications allowance. With new technology giving us the opportunity to communicate directly with voters very cheaply, why did Labour MPs vote for a £10,000 allowance to tell voters what a good job they do?
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In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.
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This is government. There is no entertainment.
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It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
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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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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
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It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States goes and takes action there on behalf of the Iraqi government. You've got Iran coming in and saying we're going to stand with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, so now we're aligning ourselves with Iran, and if we do air strikes, becoming de facto air force for them.
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You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
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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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Just take Kosovo: back then, UN bodies decided that Kosovo should become independent of Serbia and that the interests of Serbia's central government had to be subordinated. You can read that in all the records, also in the German ones.
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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.
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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.
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It is time to investigate Russian interference in our democracy and to address it in a manner that will help restore Americans' trust in their government.
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I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.
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The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.
