Government Quotes
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
Thomas Sowell
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Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
Vladimir Putin
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The less [government] the better.
Drew Carey
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The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in order to be strong enough to control their own government.
Ndabaningi Sithole
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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.
Hugo Black
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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.
Bob Marley
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The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
Hugo Black
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What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.
Rick Scott
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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.
Steve Womack
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Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
Harry S Truman
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Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.
Peter Schiff
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It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.
Rick Perry
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
Michael Newdow
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Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
James Cook
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Most everything government does is worse than useless.
James Cook
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Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Bill Gates
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In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.
John Stuart Mill
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
Steven Rattner
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During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!
Molly Ivins
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Government is not competent enough to regulate.
James Cook
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Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
Rick Perry
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We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
Adrian G. Duplantier