Barack Obama Quotes, Russia Quotes, Government Quotes

I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the United States and Russia and between how our governments operate versus other governments operate, where those distinctions aren't made.

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I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Strong Quotes , Government Quotes

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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Tags : Adam McKay Quotes , Government Quotes , Cynicism 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

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

My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

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Tags : Alan Sugar Quotes , School Quotes , Government Quotes

None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Government Quotes , Understanding Quotes

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Government Quotes , Giving Quotes

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Art Quotes , Government Quotes

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Government Quotes , Ideas Quotes

It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Running Quotes , Government Quotes

The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

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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

A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Government Quotes , Politics Quotes

I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Government Quotes , Safety Quotes

The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Museums Quotes , Government Quotes

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Language Quotes