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		In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carl Paladino
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carl Paladino
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Bernanke
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nathan Deal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cal Thomas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				I. F. Stone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Clooney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				B. B. King
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Narendra Modi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Caleb Cushing
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Osman Baydemir
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Walter Cronkite