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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
– Richard M. Nixon
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
– Chris Christie
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So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.
– Tom Colicchio
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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
– Eddie Izzard
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So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
– Milton Friedman
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So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
– Monica Lewinsky
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So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.
– Russell Means
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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'
– Paul Ryan
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
– Jeremy Bentham
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
– Edward Abbey
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
– Gary Bauer
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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?
– J. C. Watts
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Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
– Jesse Ventura
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
– James Madison
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Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
– Eddie Vedder
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President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.
– Paul Ryan
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President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.
– Rick Perry
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President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
– Tony Campolo
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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
– Eliot Spitzer
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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
– Ayn Rand
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Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
– Jim Hightower
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
– Alice Walker
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
– B. R. Ambedkar
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People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
– Benjamin Carson
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People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
– Glenn Beck
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People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.
– Sarah Palin
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People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.
– Arlen Specter
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People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.
– George W. Bush
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People create jobs, not the government.
– Scott Walker
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
– Mark Twain
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
– Imran Khan
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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.
– Mitt Romney
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
– Adrian Cronauer
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Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?
– Thomas Frank
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Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
– Sarah Palin
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Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
– Gerald R. Ford
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
– Rick Perry
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Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
– Steve King
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
– John Adams
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Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!
– Rick Perry
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Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.
– Muqtada al Sadr
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One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
– Ronald Reagan
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One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.
– Ron Fournier
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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.
– Scott Walker
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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
– Lee Iacocca
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One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
– Vito Fossella
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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.
– Hillary Clinton
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On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.
– Mitt Romney
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
– Will Rogers
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
– Herbert Spencer
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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
– Edward Gibbon
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
– John Foster Dulles
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Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
– William Hague
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Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.
– Paul Ryan
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Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.
– Mitt Romney
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Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.
– Chris Christie
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Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
– Shimon Peres
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
– Edmund Burke
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
– Milton Friedman
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Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
– Benjamin Carson
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No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
– Kevin Mitnick
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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.
– Buenaventura Durruti
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
– Lily Tomlin
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New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
– Andrew Cuomo
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National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
– Theresa May
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
– Thomas Jefferson
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My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
– Buffalo Bill
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My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
– Eartha Kitt
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My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
– George Weah
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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.
– Kevin Mitnick
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
– Harold Pinter
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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
– Milton Friedman
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Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
– Joseph Sobran
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More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.
– Scott Walker
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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
– Andrew Jackson
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Man is not free unless government is limited.
– Ronald Reagan
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Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
– John Podhoretz
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Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
– Jesse Ventura
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Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
– Stephen Harper
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Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
– Thomas Sowell
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Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
– Marco Rubio
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Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
– Nancy Pelosi
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Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
– Alveda King
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Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
– Marco Rubio
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Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
– Ron Paul
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Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
– Maynard James Keenan
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It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
– Jimmy Carter
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
– Carly Fiorina
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It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
– Mitt Romney
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It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government.
– Alexander Hamilton
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It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
– William Weld
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It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.
– John Sununu
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It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
– Lucy Powell
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It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
– Alan Shepard
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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
– Andrew Jackson
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