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You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
– Rob McKenna
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
– Karel Capek
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You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
– Mitt Romney
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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
– Alexander Hamilton
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Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.
– Rick Perry
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While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.
– Tim Holden
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Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
– William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
– Elizabeth I
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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
– Thomas Jefferson
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When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.
– Colin Powell
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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.
– David Mamet
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
– Iain Duncan Smith
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When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
– Rick Perry
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When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
– Ron Paul
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When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
– Howard Zinn
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When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
– Ron Paul
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
– Adam Weishaupt
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When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
– Lawrence Lessig
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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
– James Dyson
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
– Bono
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
– Michael Bloomberg
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
– Daniel Webster
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
– P. J. O'Rourke
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
– Barbara Jordan
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What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
– Freeman Dyson
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What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
– Lucy Powell
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What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.
– Mark Levin
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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.
– Barack Obama
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
– Carly Fiorina
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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!
– Joe Biden
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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
– William J. Clinton
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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.
– John Mica
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Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
– Bill Gates
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We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
– Stephen Harper
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We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
– Theresa May
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We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
– Jesse Jackson
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We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
– Newt Gingrich
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We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
– Glenn Beck
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
– Rand Paul
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We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
– Melina Mercouri
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We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.
– Marco Rubio
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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
– Colin Powell
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We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
– Paul Ryan
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We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
– Tim Scott
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We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
– Jeff Miller
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
– Carly Fiorina
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
– P. J. O'Rourke
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We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
– Henry A. Wallace
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We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
– Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
– Glenn Beck
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We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.
– Lucy Powell
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We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
– Tim Scott
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We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.
– Marco Rubio
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We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
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We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
– Colin Powell
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We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.
– Mehmet Oz
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
– Rand Paul
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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.
– Marco Rubio
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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.
– Vladimir Putin
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
– Barbara Jordan
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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.
– Theresa May
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We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
– Evan Davis
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We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.
– Paul Ryan
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We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
– Paul Ryan
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We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
– Rick Perry
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We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.
– Paul Ryan
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We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
– Zachary Quinto
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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?
– Thomas Frank
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We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.
– Scott Walker
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We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
– Andrew Jackson
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We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
– Eliot Spitzer
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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.
– Paul Ryan
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We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.
– Jay Weatherill
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We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.
– Alan Dershowitz
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We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
– Colin Powell
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Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
– Bob Woodward
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
– James Madison
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Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
– Bob Woodward
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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
– Jesse Jackson
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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
– William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.
– Marco Rubio
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Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.
– Georgios A. Papandreou
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Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
– Marco Rubio
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Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
– Thomas Frank
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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
– Paul Tsongas
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Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
– Andrew Cuomo
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Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.
– Chris Christie
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
– James Madison
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To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
– Jack Kemp
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To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.
– Sarah Palin
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This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
– Gracie Allen
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
– Kate Millett
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This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
– Paul Ryan
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This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
– Dee Dee Myers
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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
– Benjamin Carson
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
– Will Rogers
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This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
– John Wycliffe
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