- People
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- 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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- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.
- Bad Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
- American Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.
- Commandment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about 'the mystical Body of Christ.' It is now an ironclad commandment of conservative orthodoxy that 'the government' is something parasitic and alien.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said for a long time that the governor and the mayors should be far more engaged in this conversation at the federal level. I mean, the consequences and the impact of the federal government's broken immigration policy do not land on the backs of the people in Washington. They just don't.
- Biggest Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020