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Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

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We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.

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It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

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In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

3 years ago

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The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

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Government should do a few things, and do them right

3 years ago

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I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the financial institutions smartly, so I don't have to engage in any kind of bank bailouts.

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Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.

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The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

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Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.

3 years ago

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For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

4 years ago

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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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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

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

3 years ago

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Government Quotes , Two Quotes

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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