Government Quotes
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Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.
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My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.
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I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.
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A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.
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Unlike the public and business is prepared, government cannot do this alone.
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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.
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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.
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ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.
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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
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Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!
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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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People don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.
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The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.
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We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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I know how businesses work and what government can do to help lay a strong foundation for the private sector.
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Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
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Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.
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If your government says you can own property and maintain control of it, but only if you pay property taxes, you are a renter, not an owner. Governments get away with these rackets because enough people still believe they somehow represent “the will of the people,” as opposed to their sponsors.
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It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.
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I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.
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The government is worst which governs most.
