- 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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- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a liberal agenda in which government resists the temptation to interfere in the lives of individuals but is equally determined to play an active role where creative action can advance the liberties of all.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Useful lessons can be learned from our more successful local authorities - as you move into government, it is even more imperative to communicate speedily and persuasively with your members and your voters.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note.
- Database
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
- No Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
At no time during the period intervening between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of the new government were the leaders in Federalism certain that the agrarian party, which had opposed the Constitution, might not render the instrument ineffectual by securing possession of Congress.
- Breach
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- Nov 07, 2020
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.
- Avert
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- Nov 07, 2020
No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
- Equal Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020