Famous Quotes: Government

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.
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We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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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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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.
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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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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
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You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.
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I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
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If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
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As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
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