Famous Quotes: Government

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
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It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.
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The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
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I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
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Every country has the government it deserves.
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The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
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We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
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Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.
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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
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On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.
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Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
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When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
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