Government Quotes
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One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
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My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
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The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.
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Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.
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One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
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When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.
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There is great anger, ... ... here is a government which is meant to be fighting terrorists doing deals with terrorists.
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It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.
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Captaining the government of a nation is a bit more exacting than captain of a football team. I know for I've done both.
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Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
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I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
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A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
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They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.
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The government's job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.
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That is what government of the people, by the people, and for the people means, and women are people equally with men.
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The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.
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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.
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It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.
