Famous Quotes: Government

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.
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The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
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Government is dysfunctional.
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Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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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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If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.
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We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
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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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A government of laws, and not of men.
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The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
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In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.
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I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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