- Life
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- 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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
- Financed
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- Nov 07, 2020
If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.
- Chinese Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
- Nov 07, 2020