Famous Quotes: Government

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
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We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.
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A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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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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My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
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Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
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Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.
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Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.
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Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
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I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
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