- Clear
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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.
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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I did warn about when I testified in front of Congress in 2002, I said if you want to worry about a state, it shouldn't be Iraq, it should be Iran. But this government, our administration, wanted to worry about Iraq, not Iran.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big government - and just generally getting government off the backs of small businesses.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
- Concentrated
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
- Big Corporations
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020