Al Franken Quotes, Government Quotes, Neutrality Quotes

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

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Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

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I've never needed government to hold my hand.

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The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

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Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Government Quotes , Hands Quotes

One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.

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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Government Quotes , Lust Quotes

The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Government Quotes , Doors Quotes

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

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For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Government Quotes , Fool Quotes

How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.

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I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

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The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

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If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Government Quotes

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Lying Quotes , Government Quotes