Famous Quotes: Government

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
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Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.
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Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.
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Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.
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But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.
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Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
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If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
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