Famous Quotes: Government

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
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Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
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So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.
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Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
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The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
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If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
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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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One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
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The essence of good government is trust.
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.
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Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.
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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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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
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