- Nov 07, 2020
Government Quotes
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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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- Determining
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- Nov 07, 2020
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and to make government data more accessible and usable for entrepreneurs, companies, researchers, and citizens everywhere - innovators who can leverage these resources to benefit Americans in a rapidly growing array of exciting and powerful ways.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look forward to doing everything I can in my new role to help bring more and more of the best talent and best ideas from Silicon Valley and across the nation into government.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what government programs that have been given to the American people that are unsustainable promises that have been made by reckless politicians that can't possibly be sustained. We can determine which one of those if any we need to keep.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020