Government Quotes
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
 Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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.
 Barbara Tuchman
					 
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Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
 Vayalar Ravi
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
 Barry Goldwater
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I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.
 Harry S Truman
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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.
 Paolo Gentiloni
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
 Irene Peter
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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.
 Rand Paul
					 
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Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.
 Gavin Newsom
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
 Yochai Benkler
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My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
 Ma Jian
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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.
 Ralph Hall
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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.
 Adam Cohen
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European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.
 Carles Puigdemont
					 
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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.
 Rand Paul
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Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.
 William O. Douglas
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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.
 Harry Browne
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
 Jack Keane
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
 Adam Cohen
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The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.
 Frances O'Grady
					 
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The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.
 Kapil Sibal
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
 Jack Markell
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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.
 P. J. O'Rourke
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That should shock and awaken every American. You have to question what's going on here & The government acts as if they're oblivious to this & The entire enterprise is collapsing.
 B. R. Hayden