Adam McKay Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Government Quotes

I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don't think people really saw this guy for what he was.

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Government Quotes , Church Quotes

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Art Quotes , Government Quotes

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Two Quotes

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can welcome them as partners instead of resenting them as rivals.

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The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

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Liberty is its own reward.

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All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

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My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Law Quotes , Government Quotes

Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

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We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

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If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.

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Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

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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.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

Morality is the object of government.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Government Quotes , Morality Quotes