Famous Quotes: Government

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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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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We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.
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I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
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I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.
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We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
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If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.
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There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong.
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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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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
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I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.
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I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
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One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
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