- Nov 07, 2020
Government Quotes
Testimony, accountability and risk assessment.
These "government" quotes come largely from public testimony and accountability — speakers describing appearances before Congress and the basic expectation that citizens deserve clear answers from officials. For related themes, see Business quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Barack Obama and his team believe that the federal government is best prepared to handle virtually everything in our lives. I mean, they're socialists in every respect of the word and I think they'd like to take over everything in our lives if they could, including health care.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the list of abuses by federal agencies grows, Americans are rapidly losing trust in government.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, too often the media doesn't ask the simple question: Why did elected leaders wait until the 11th hour to address government funding we've known would expire for months, if not years?
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the collection of conversations between the Israeli government and members of Congress occurred, had it been inadvertent, then they would have been destroyed instead of redacted for further use. Had they been inadvertent, then they would not have been forwarded to the White House for review in their redacted form.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fifteen years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the United States government still has little idea how many foreign travelers overstay their visas annually and remain in the U.S.
- Nov 07, 2020
Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.
- Creditors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020