Government Quotes
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When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.
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Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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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.
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Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.
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We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
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Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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If necessary, Italy is prepared to fight against Islamic State in Libya because the Italian government cannot accept a terrorist danger in power just a few hours away from Italy by boat.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
