Famous Quotes: Government

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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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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The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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That fatal drollery called a representative government.
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An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
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If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
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The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
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Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.
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I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States.
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