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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We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
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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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The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.
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I urge the senior members of the political system to form as broad a government as possible that would unite the moderate forces from the Left and Right so that we will be able to bring about real change in the State of Israel.
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Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
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A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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There was no agreement between us, there is a great gulf because the southern government still thinks the IRA should be there and by right should be taking part in these discussions and by right should be in any future government of Northern Ireland.
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There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
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Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.
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In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
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And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
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Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.
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Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
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It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
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The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.
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As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.
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War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
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By limiting access to surrogacy based on flimsy and exclusionary criteria, the government may just give rise to a mushrooming black market.
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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.
