Government Quotes
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It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
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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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The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.
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There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young women who are interested in running for office, you just have to decide you're going to follow Eleanor Roosevelt's maxim about growing skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros, and you have to be incredibly well-prepared - better prepared [than a man], actually - and you have to figure out how you're going to present yourself, and you have to have a support group around you, because it can be really a brutal experience.
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Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling.
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Public influence is the real government of the world.
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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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When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
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Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
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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.
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The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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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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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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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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Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.
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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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A government that says what it means, and means what it says.
