- Media
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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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- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
- Graduates
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
- Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020