- 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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
- Bureaucrats
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020