940 private quotes tagged government

“Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.” — Paul Harvey

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“Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.” — Grover Norquist

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“There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.” — Andrew Jackson

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“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Everything government touches turns to crap.” — Ringo Starr

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“So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.” — Russell Means

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“It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.” — Andrew Jackson

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“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.” — John C. Calhoun

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“Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.” — Sheikh Hasina

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“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.” — Earl Warren

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“I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.” — Andy Rooney

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“I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.” — Jesse Ventura

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“The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.” — Geronimo

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“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.” — Tom Clancy

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“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.” — Daniel Webster

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“Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?” — J. C. Watts

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“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.” — Grover Cleveland

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“I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.” — Thabo Mbeki

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“We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.” — Vladimir Putin

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“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.” — Milton Friedman

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“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.” — Jonathan Swift

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