940 private quotes tagged government

“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.” — William E. Gladstone

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“You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.” — Chris Rock

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“I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.” — Rick Warren

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“Governments never learn. Only people learn.” — Milton Friedman

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“I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.” — Brian Mulroney

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“I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.” — Jane Fonda

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“It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.” — Tom Stoppard

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“The essence of good government is trust.” — Kathleen Sebelius

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“For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.” — Vince Cable

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“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.” — Lily Tomlin

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“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.” — Sam Houston

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“Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.” — Norman Cousins

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“People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.” — Robert Half

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“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” — Denis Diderot

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“In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.” — Russell Means

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“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.” — George W. Bush

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“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.” — Milton Friedman

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“The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.” — Milton Friedman

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“Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” — Adrian Cronauer

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“The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.” — Mia Love

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“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.” — Bill Gates

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“Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.” — George W. Bush

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“I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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