- Family
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show her ankles to to get that job?
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.
- Odds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.
- Cheney
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
- Demoralized
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020