- Character
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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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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.
- Protect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen, in the same way that politics and government allow people to engage in large issues, media does the same.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government has a key role in regulating and making sure there's an even playing field and protecting consumers. No question about it.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never believed in the fallacy that the federal government can buy its way out of economic troubles through needless spending. For that reason, I am proud to oppose 'stimulus' packages and endless corporate bailouts, which will do little but weaken the long-term integrity of the American economy.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism means slavery.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there are no golden years, but a time of struggle and dependence. That was the United States before the creation of Social Security, which has proven to be one of the most effective and important government programs in our history.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
All taxpayers feel a tremendous sense of frustration as they see many tens of billions of dollars of bonuses paid to the same mega banks that were on the brink of bankruptcy and were only saved by massive government rescue money and support. We are not satisfied by the fact that many of them have paid the money back, nor should we be.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020