Famous Quotes: Government

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.
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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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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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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
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As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
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The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
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Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very difficult journey of repairing, rescuing, restoring our British economy, and they want us, and they want particularly Liberal Democrats in government, to fight for the fairest possible way of doing that.
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The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't.
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Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.
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But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.
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Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
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