Famous Quotes: Government

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.
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Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips.
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I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
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The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
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There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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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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We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
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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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If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
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I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
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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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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
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