- Looking
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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
- Bailing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now.
- Embraces
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- Nov 07, 2020
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
- Vietnam War
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- Nov 07, 2020
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
- Helping Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020