Famous Quotes: Government

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
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The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.
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The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
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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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The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.
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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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As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
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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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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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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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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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