Government Quotes
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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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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 have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.
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I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.
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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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A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.
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Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
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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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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.
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You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
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It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
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I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.
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I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.
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Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.
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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
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I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
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And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because democracy is not possible in the Muslim world without bringing in the Islamists or part of the Islamists who hate us now into these governments.
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I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.
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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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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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It is inconceivable that military commanders would permit their troops to cross an international border without explicit political authorization to do so. That clearly would be a decision solely for your Government.
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The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
