Famous Quotes: Government

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
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The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
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We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
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There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.
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Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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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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When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.
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The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
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That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
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Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
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Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
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