Government Quotes
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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.
George Will -
So a working couple can contribute a lot more with a Roth 401(k). Each spouse can put $15,000 into a Roth 401(k). It's an opportunity to put a lot of money away that you'll never again have to share with the government.
Ed Slott
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S Truman -
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle -
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
George Will -
I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.
Evgeny Morozov -
What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.
George Will -
Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
Molly Ivins
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When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
Rick Perry -
I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
Evan Osnos -
Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.
Andrew Horning -
My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn't believe in mortgages.
Hillary Clinton -
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
Terence McKenna -
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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I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
Howard Stern -
It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government’s or the private sector’s, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.
Caroline Baum -
I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
Molly Ivins -
In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.
Rick Perry -
We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
George Will -
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand