Famous Quotes: Government

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
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The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
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People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
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Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
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The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
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The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
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I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.
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This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.
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One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
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Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
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