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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
– Imran Khan
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I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.
– Muqtada al Sadr
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I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
– Andy Rooney
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
– Will Rogers
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I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
– Kin Hubbard
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I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.
– Andrew Cuomo
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I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
– Curt Schilling
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I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
– George Michael
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I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.
– Jesse Ventura
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I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.
– Michael Bloomberg
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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
– Demetri Martin
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I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
– Jesse Ventura
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
– Barbara Bush
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
– Vince Cable
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I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
– Tony Blair
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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.
– Andrew Jackson
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I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
– Jimmy Carter
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I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
– Jim DeMint
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I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
– Al-Waleed bin Talal
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I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
– Scott Walker
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I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
– David Rockefeller
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I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.
– Louis Farrakhan
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
– H. L. Mencken
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I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
– Jesse Ventura
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I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.
– Arlen Specter
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I am the government.
– Andrew Cuomo
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I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
– Madeleine Albright
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I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
– Ron Paul
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Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
– Louise Slaughter
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
– Thomas Jefferson
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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
– Jon Meacham
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Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
– Chris Christie
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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.
– Eliot Spitzer
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Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
– Benjamin Carson
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Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
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Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
– Luke Scott
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
– Ronald Reagan
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Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
– Jesse Ventura
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Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
– Matthew Lesko
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Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.
– Michael Bloomberg
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Government stimulates the democrat party.
– Rush Limbaugh
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Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
– Leland Stanford
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
– Frederic Bastiat
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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.
– Thomas Frank
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Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.
– Mitt Romney
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Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
– Charley Reese
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
– Harry Browne
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Government is essentially immoral.
– Herbert Spencer
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
– John Updike
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Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Government is dysfunctional.
– Michael Bloomberg
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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
– Ronald Reagan
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
– John Locke
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Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
– Marsha Blackburn
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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.
– George W. Bush
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Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
– Iain Duncan Smith
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Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.
– Tony Campolo
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Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
– Stafford Cripps
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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
– Tony Campolo
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Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
– Mitt Romney
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For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.
– Theresa May
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For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
– Marco Rubio
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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
– Gerry Adams
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For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
– Eliot Spitzer
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
– Jonathan Swift
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.
– Sarah Palin
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
– P. J. O'Rourke
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Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
– Benito Mussolini
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
– Ringo Starr
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Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.
– Tom Coburn
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.
– Chris Chocola
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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
– David Hume
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Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.
– Glenn Beck
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
– Buffalo Bill
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Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
– Will Durant
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Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.
– Curt Schilling
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
– H. L. Mencken
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Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
– Pete Stark
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Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
– James Dyson
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
– Rand Paul
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Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
– Paul Ryan
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Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.
– Mitt Romney
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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
– George McGovern
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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
– Ronald Reagan
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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
– Woodrow Wilson
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
– James Russell Lowell
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.
– Paul Ryan
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Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
– Rick Perry
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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.
– Thomas Frank
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Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
– Grover Cleveland
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Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
– Sarah Palin
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Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
– Tony Campolo
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