Government Quotes
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Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.
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I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs on the front of the building or the prices on the showroom floor. He knew he could do better, if government would just get out of the way - and stay out of the way. He was right.
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
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When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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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?
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out and held accountable.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out of the way.'
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
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Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.
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We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.
