Government Quotes
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The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.
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I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order.
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The less [government] the better.
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We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks on living standards.
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We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.
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Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.
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We hope very much from the Iranian side some movement will take place before that date. If nothing happens, the Iranian government should know what may happen on March 6.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.
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We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought...
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The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
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If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without a common Power to keep them all in awe; we might as well suppose all mankind to do the same; and then there neither would be nor need to be any civil government or commonwealth at all, because there would be Peace without subjection.
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I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
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The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.
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For me to get out in the congressional district that I represent and see all the things that we manufacture there, produce there, to get to know its people better, its businesses better and its government leaders better, all of those things have enriched me.
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Our own government has become our enemy.
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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
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The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.
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One of the greatest things I've ever seen happen was the morning I opened the newspaper and it said that some very powerful government officials had decided to change the name of “french fries” to “freedoom fries” and “french toast” to “freedom toast”. It was impressive. I wanted to write a letter to them just to thank them, just for proving globally that they were absolute imbeciles.
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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising the natural rate of unemployment.
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.
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I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.
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People who do not know what government is are not likely to know what democracy is either, for democracy is only what the soft inside of the oyster looks like.
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Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.
