Famous Quotes: Government

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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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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We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.
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It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
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Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
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As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
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The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
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And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
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I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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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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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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I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.
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It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
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