Government Quotes
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If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.
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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
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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.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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.
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If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.
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There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
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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.
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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 am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.
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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.
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There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.
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Public influence is the real government of the world.
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Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.
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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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State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
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It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.
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I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.
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What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.
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The collapse of communism as an ideology and of the Soviet Union as a world power has made possible an unprecedented internationalization of current American values, among them free choice in the consumer marketplace, reduced government economic regulation and an emphasis on individual self-fulfillment rather than the social good, all promoted by an internationalized mass media and consumer culture.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
