Government Quotes
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We will continue economic support for the Palestinian Authority. We want to see how the new government is formed. After that we will decide what to do, but we will never abandon the Palestinian people.
Javier Solana
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What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.
Keith Olbermann
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Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?
Al Meyerhoff
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We look like we're just crybabies, ... And the world out there is not sympathetic to government scientists who make more money than the vice president of the United States. Let's get real.
Elias Zerhouni
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Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.
Mother Teresa
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The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
Michael Oxley
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I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.
Saxby Chambliss
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If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
Marianne Williamson
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But how many senators, representatives, and justices are on our currency, have monuments on the National Mall, have their names on towns, cities, counties, states, or figure prominently in Hollywood movies, television, or cable series? Congress and the Supreme Court can be in or out of session. The president is the Energizer Bunny™ of the American government.
Aaron David Miller
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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
Tony Abbott
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A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.
Alan Johnson
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The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.
George Washington
