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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
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.
- Moving Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020