Government Quotes
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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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We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
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Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
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As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
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We are on the edge of economic collapse unless we wake up and forcibly take back control of our government and economy. Over the past 100 years, the game has been rigged, slowly and piecemeal at first, always in the name of serving the greater good, preventing the next bubble or providing greater transparency and security. It is as if the American people are suffering from battered spouse syndrome; the politicians, the greedy bankers, and the Fed all lie to us while they steal our wealth and our liberty. Every time we call them on it, they promise to never do it again if we’ll just give them one more chance. So we let it slide and then act shocked when they do it to us again. Maybe we should have our collective head examined.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
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Don't let the government win.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
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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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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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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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Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.
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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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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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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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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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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.
