Government Quotes
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In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
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All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
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People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.
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Public influence is the real government of the world.
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
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I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.
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As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.
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American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
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How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.
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When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
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America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
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Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.
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There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.
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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.
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A government that says what it means, and means what it says.
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I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.
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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.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
