“In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.”
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“The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.”
“Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.”
“I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.”
“The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.”
“Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.”
“Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.”
“But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.”
“We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.”
“The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.”
“It's the federal government's job to secure the border.”
“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.”
“It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.”
“If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.”
“I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.”
“Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.”
“But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.”
“President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?”
“If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?”
“From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.”
“After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.”
“Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.”
“Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.”
“A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.”