Government Quotes
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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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A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.
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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
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My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.
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I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I have faith in you, the youth of America, to build even more securely on the foundations laid by the faith and devotion of your pioneer fathers.
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Cisco has never and will never work with a foreign government of any type for the purpose of restricting political speech.
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War is like government, a matter of tact.
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For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
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The practical result of the court's decision is that the president and all other government officials will be less likely to receive full and frank advice about their official obligations and duties from government attorneys.
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I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.
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I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.
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A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
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Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
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The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
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I've heard the government say many nice things. But it did make some gestures, like writing human rights protection into the constitution - that surprised me. And it improved the conditions for foreign journalists: It used to be impossible for you to meet with me personally. But there still hasn't been a real improvement in the human rights situation.
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There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.
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But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.
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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
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It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"
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The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.
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It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.
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Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
