Government Quotes
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Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.
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The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.
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The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
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This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.
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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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We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.
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I think we have lost track of a core Republican principle of limited government and balancing budgets and restraining federal spending. We have got to change the system.
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God loves America. When you consider what He went through to bring our forbearers to this magnificent land, and when you realize what He accomplished in bringing forth a new nation on this continent - a government founded on Christian principles...you have to realize that He had a dramatic vision and purpose for this nation.
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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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There are extensive contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al Qaeda.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.
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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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Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.
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A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
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You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
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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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I think governments can't do much.
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Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.
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For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
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The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters.
