Government Quotes
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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
P. Sathasivam
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A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. Chidambaram
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The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
Hannah Arendt
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We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
Nadia Comaneci
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One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Under the British healthcare system, there is a commission that decides whether or not, based on your age and physical condition, the government should continue to pay for your health.
Nat Hentoff
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It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
Sam Brownback
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The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
Rand Paul
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
Ted Turner
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The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
Orson Pratt
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Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.
Barry Loudermilk
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
Carl Paladino
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If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.
Ferdinand Marcos
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
Walid Muallem
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All of us in Fiji, the Government and the people, are very proud for what you have achieved in reaching the finals of this year's Hong Kong Sevens.
Laisenia Qarase
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
Ted Cruz
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!
P. J. O'Rourke
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Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.
Ibrahim Rugova
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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
Vince Cable
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The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.
Liam Fox
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At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
Randal Cremer
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We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
Manmohan Singh