Government Quotes
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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
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A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.
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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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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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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.
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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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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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And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
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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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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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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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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
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It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.
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Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
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When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while you were Secretary of State, and you didn't, and now the Clinton Global Initiative is having to restate their 990s, that doesn't sound very trustworthy to me.
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In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.
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Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.
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I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
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I believe Money is too important to leave in the hands of government officials.
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I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.
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In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
