- Bureaucracy
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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
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's one job of government and that's to protect its citizens and protect those in law enforcement.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government should invest in public infrastructure.
- Generosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest.
- Greed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of government. Our nation's long-term debt requires us to prioritize and economize with every tax dollar.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If President Obama really means what he has said repeatedly about supporting the aspirations of the Egyptian people, then he will have to recognize that in Egypt today, as in America in 1963, that can mean opposing government policy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too little on the 'voice of the people.'
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.
- Helping
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- Nov 07, 2020