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Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The United States and Iran are now settling a long-standing Iranian government claim against the United States government. Iran will be returned its own funds, including appropriate interest but much less than the amount Iran sought. With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well.

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[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

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Tags : Adam Carolla Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Running Quotes , Government Quotes

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Country Quotes , Government Quotes

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

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Tags : Alan Barth Quotes , Government Quotes , Church Quotes

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Government Quotes , Genius Quotes

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Government Quotes , Breathing Quotes

The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make it a matter of necessity to give to the sovereign - that is, to the Government, which represents the people as a whole - some effective power of supervision over their corporate use. In order to insure a healthy social and industrial life, every big corporation should be held responsible by, and be accountable to, some sovereign strong enough to control its conduct.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Strong Quotes , Government Quotes

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Sovereign 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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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Stars Quotes , Government Quotes

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

The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Government Quotes , Invisible Hand Quotes

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

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Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , Government Quotes , Presidential Quotes

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Gone Quotes

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

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Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Government Quotes , Would Be Quotes