Government Quotes
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But are we to accept a form of government which we do not entirely approve of, merely in hopes that it will be administered well? Does not every man know, that nothing is more liable to be abused than power. Power, without a check, in any hands, is tyranny;
Bernard Bailyn
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Haven't you noticed that every time the government f-ks up McDonald's has a new sandwich?
Bill Burr
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Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.
Sam Houston
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
Caleb Cushing
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
Victor Ponta
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
Yossi Sarid
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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.
Kate Brown
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
Gary Johnson
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My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
Aristotle
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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold MacMillan
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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.
Wen Jiabao
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Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.
Emil Ludwig
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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
Iqbal Quadir
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Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
Upamanyu Chatterjee