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I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.
– Kathleen Blanco
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I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
– Michael Bloomberg
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In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.
– Matt Blunt
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In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
– Matt Blunt
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Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
– Matt Blunt
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The Saudis are exporting anti-American, extremist teachings directly into our country. It is a destructive force that cannot be allowed to fester and grow within our borders. It is simply unacceptable to allow a foreign government to foster hatred of America from within.
– Christopher Bond
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I hope every woman in this country, whether they agree with Roe or they disagree with Roe, whether they themselves would make one decision or another, will come together and say: Pro-choice means that the Government respects the individual, and isn't that really what our country is all about?
– Barbara Boxer
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In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.
– Barbara Boxer
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
– Barbara Boxer
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As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.
– Allen Boyd
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As you may be aware, the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by the President on January 8, 2002. I was happy to support this bill, which was the result of months of intense bipartisan negotiations. This legislation sets the stage for a limited, but productive, role for the federal government in the education of our nation's children.
– Allen Boyd
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Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.
– Allen Boyd
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Government is the tool of the moneyed powers. That concentration of power is happening because Congress is bought off. The system is rigged. And anyone who because of some schoolbook imagery thinks we have some sort of a democratically elected government is not reading the signs of the times.
– Jerry Brown
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The government is a bunch of whores. Look at the people who pay to elect the government. Small farmers or cooperative activists do not pay anything other than a microscopic speck of the money spent to elect Congress.
– Jerry Brown
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I was driving from the station in Washington, home to Georgetown. My father was working in the government, and I think I must have been 12 years old. I remember it was raining. We passed the National Gallery, and it was - that wonderful pink marble in the rain it gets very rich rose, and... I remember looking up and saying to my parents, That's the kind of job I would like to have some day.
– J. Carter Brown
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It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
– Sam Brownback
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The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.
– David Bruce
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America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.
– George W. Bush
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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.
– Jeb Bush
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We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.
– Jeb Bush
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There is, in fact, no law or government at all [in Italy]; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
– Lord Byron
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I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.
– Michael Badnarik
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The government never does anything successfully.
– Michael Badnarik
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The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
– Michael Badnarik
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The reason that we can't find a relationship between the Constitution and the government is that there is none.
– Michael Badnarik
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When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
– Michael Badnarik
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A good professor is a bastard perverse enough to think what he thinks is important, not what government thinks is important.
– Edward C. Banfield
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Some people believe state government is being run so efficiently that no money can be saved. I am not one of those people.
– Haley Barbour
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Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.
– Charles A. Beard
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As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
– Pierre de Beaumarchais
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I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.
– Bob Beauprez
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Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
– Peter Benenson
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It is not who governs, but what government is entitled to do, that is the essential problem.
– Charles G. Bragg
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The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.
– James Breithaupt
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I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs for the United States.
– Jack Brooks
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
– Harry Browne
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
– Harry Browne
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I do not wish to give up the power of personal arms and be defenseless against those who will ever and always keep and bear arms those in crime and those in government.
– Robert W. Burke
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A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
– John C. Calhoun
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Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
– Kim Campbell
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On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.
– Kim Campbell
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Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now-at the highest levels of the federal government.
– Kim Campbell
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To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
– Kim Campbell
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We live in tough times, and Canadians have some tough questions for government. They want clear answers. They are well beyond the glib, glad-handing of the past.
– Kim Campbell
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We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.
– Kim Campbell
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Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
– Maria Cantwell
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I believe that there are four Pathways to Prosperity: Good Jobs, Good Schools, Good Government and a Good Place to Live.
– Donald L. Carcieri
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
– Thomas Carlyle
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
– Jimmy Carter
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The tobacco buyout comes at no cost to the taxpayers, and remedies the action taken by the federal government that would otherwise have pulled the rug out from under generations of families who've grown this crop.
– Saxby Chambliss
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The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing.
– John Chancellor
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
– William Ellery Channing
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When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
– Alexander Chase
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It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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Your government faild you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you.
– Richard Clark
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Even if you set aside the need for valid code, it is ridiculously easy to find non-government sites that flunk even the simplest and most canonical requirements of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, like using alt texts for images.
– Joe Clark
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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
– Henry Clay
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He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
– Grover Cleveland
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When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.
– Grover Cleveland
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The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
– Bill Clinton
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The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
– George Clooney
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President Reagan had a contagious sense of optimism. He believed deeply America was capable of solving our problems through our democratic process of self-government, and that other nations could do the same.
– Thad Cochran
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We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.
– Thad Cochran
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
– Gary Coleman
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
– James Fenimore Cooper
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
– James Fenimore Cooper
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I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'
– John Cornyn
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It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
– Michael Crapo
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The point to remember is that what the government gives, it must first take away.
– John S. Coleman
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We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.
– Michael Connelly
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Captaining the government of a nation is a bit more exacting than captain of a football team. I know for I've done both.
– John Curtin
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Good government is good politics.
– Richard J. Daley
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Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
– Mitch Daniels
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Clinton was saying that the school-killings in Colorado were connected with rock music, but that is stupid. The government needed to blame it on something and rock seemed to be the easiest target.
– Jonathan Davis
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The Constitution of the United States is a law, for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
– David Davis
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The proposition is this: that in a time of war the commander of an armed force... has the power... to suspend all civil rights and their remedies, and subject citizens... to the rule of his will... If true, [our] republican government is a failure, and there is an end of liberty regulated by law.
– David Davis
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You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.
– Geoff Davis
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If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.
– Mark Dayton
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Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
– Jim DeMint
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I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
– Johnny Depp
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Our ability to turn over control to a peaceful and sovereign Iraqi government is an integral part of the overall war on terror.
– Elizabeth Dole
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As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country.
– Pete Domenici
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When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
– Byron Dorgan
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The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
– William O. Douglas
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The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.
– Tommy Douglas
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From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.
– Jim Doyle
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I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
– Jim Doyle
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Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.
– David Duke
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The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The Government may not, through the Communications Decency Act, interrupt that conversation.
– Stewart Dalzell
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As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
– Judge Dalzell
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Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The Government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation.
– Judge Dalzell
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No government could survive without champagne. In the throat of our diplomatic people it is like oil in the wheels of an engine.
– Joseph Dargent
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Our government leaders. . . have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
– Samuel Dash
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The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
– George Deukmejian
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It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered the bulwark of a free people. Tyrants have never placed any confidence on a militia composed of freemen.
– John Dewitt
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The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.
– T. C. Douglas
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Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.
– Esther Dyson
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When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.
– Shirin Ebadi
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We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.
– Robert. L. Ehrlich
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