Government Quotes
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
Pat Paulsen
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But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that.
Mark Steyn
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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'.
Cal Thomas
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
Adam Cohen
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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
William Hague
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Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
Jonathan Kellerman
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In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.
Malcolm Gladwell
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That is what we know how to do better than anyone else: We know how to maximize value for our projects. If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
Dan Gertler
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Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies - from a range of institutions and government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration - have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices.
Harold Hamm
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There is great anger, ... ... here is a government which is meant to be fighting terrorists doing deals with terrorists.
Ian Paisley
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A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.
George Washington
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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.
John Curtin
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I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.
Rahm Emanuel
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So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
Narendra Modi
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By the middle of the month, you'll really see a beginning of a nucleus of an Iraqi government with an Iraqi face on it that is dealing with the coalition.
Jay Garner
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.
Richard Scaife
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We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.
Tony Abbott
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
Ingrid Betancourt
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They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.
Thomas Hobbes
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It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.
Bill Gates
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Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.
Randy Forbes
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After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
Pat Toomey