Government Quotes
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When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
Thomas Sowell
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The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.
Eqbal Ahmad
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Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
Paul D. Boyer
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The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
Thomas Sowell
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You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security.
Rick Scott
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I've said many times around the world that like any government, like any country, like, any set of human institutions, we have our flaws. We've operated imperfectly. There are times we've made mistakes.
Barack Obama
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It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.
Hannah Arendt
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Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.
Joseph Stalin
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If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
Nick Turse
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Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.
Hillary Clinton
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Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.
James Cook
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The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
Mitch Kapor
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Honoured to be back as Secretary of State for Transport. In a government working hard to level up Britain, connecting communities means everything!
Grant Shapps
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Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
William Shakespeare
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People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
James Cook
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No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.
Neil Peart Rush
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Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.
Walt Whitman
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Government regulators are another name for police.
James Cook
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Every organization of our government, the best government in the world, is crumbling to pieces. Those who have it in their hands are the ones who are destroying it. How long will it be before the words of the prophet Joseph will be fulfilled? He said if the Constitution of the United States were saved at all it must be done by this people. It will not be many years before these words come to pass.
Brigham Young
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We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.
Tim Pawlenty
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The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
Adrian Rogers
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman