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Government Power Quotes: Freedom and Accountability

Keeping power in check

These government power quotes argue that the Freedom to criticize openly acts as a vital check against unchecked government power and control.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

Quotes by William J. Clinton

Power
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Nov 07, 2020

Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.

Quotes by Patrick Leahy

Government
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Nov 07, 2020

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

Quotes by Mike Pence

Freedom
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Nov 07, 2020

Our freedom to criticize the government - as openly and brutally as we want to - serves as a vital check against unbridled government power and control.

Quotes by Kat Timpf

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.

Quotes by Cass Sunstein

Nov 07, 2020

Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.

Others tie the idea to a free press, insisting that in real time it may be the only genuine Control on how far government power can expand.

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