Government Quotes
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Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.
Ivan Krastev
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If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
Nick Turse
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His own government, suing him, that's not Chocolate Sundae!
William H. Gates, Sr.
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The government has taken a very wrong decision. They have put all ethics of transparency and justice aside. The manner in which the bidding and contracting out to private consortiums has been conducted has raised serious doubts about the legality of the process.
Brinda Karat
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No one is above the law and I will also say that deliberate leaking of confidential government information should not and can not be tolerated.
Nick Minchin
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Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
Esther Dyson
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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.
Erle Stanley Gardner
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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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The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
Errico Malatesta
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
George Bernard Shaw
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In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle
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We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
Sharron Angle
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Have the government get out of the way.
Scott Rigell
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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.
Javier Solana
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Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
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What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.
Ed Crane
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The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.
Judith Butler
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We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.
Anthony Robbins
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Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.
Bernardino Leon
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The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.
Millard Fillmore
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Civil society completely displaces government and converts into a global, cosmopolitan melting pot.
Aleksandr Dugin
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Government regulators are another name for police.
James Cook
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There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?
James Cook
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Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
Mitch Daniels