Famous Quotes: Government

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
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And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
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In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
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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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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.
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That fatal drollery called a representative government.
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Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
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Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
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Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
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A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
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A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
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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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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
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