Famous Quotes: Government

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
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Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!
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One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.
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The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
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When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
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Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
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I am the government.
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Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.
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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 government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
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You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.
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Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.
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