Government Quotes
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Before I was elected to Congress, I helped to create the public corruption unit in the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Unfortunately, business was good. Among the usual suspects were government contracts steered to insiders - leaving Illinois taxpayers holding the bag.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.
Conan O'Brien
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Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism.... The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown.
Paul Craig Roberts
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I have taken my flight in the region of eagles; when I alight, it must be on a rock, and that rock must be a constitutional government, of which I shall be the head so long as I shall be among men.
Toussaint Louverture
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
Abraham Lincoln
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No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.
Abraham Lincoln
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Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.
William A. Dembski
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It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.
Barack Obama
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I still believe in the power of government to make lives better, and I believe that if someone is willing to take a stand, other people will follow.
Gina Raimondo
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People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in the private market, are not only kidding themselves by ignoring the taxes that government has to take from them in order to give them the appearance of something for nothing.
Thomas Sowell
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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.
Rick Mercer
