Government Quotes
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Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.
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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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Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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It's simply not sensible ... for the government to say there is no link whatsoever between what is happening in Iraq and what is happening in terms of recruiting extremists.
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It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
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And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.
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These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
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I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings of our citizens.
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A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.
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In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
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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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Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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When you're in the CIA, you anticipate the possibility that you'll be betrayed by a foreign government or a source, but you never anticipate that it would be by your own government.
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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.
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Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
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The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
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It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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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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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
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It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.
