Government Quotes
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President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
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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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State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other conservation measures as water shortages become the new normal.
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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.
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Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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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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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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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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When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
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I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.
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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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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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Influence is not government.
