- Life
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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.
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- Greatest Threat
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.
- Big Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's openness is a welcome change from his predecessor, who went all the way to the Supreme Court to hide the RSVP list for a single policy meeting. And transparency is intrinsically good, since in a democracy, very little government activity is legitimately secret.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a government forcibly holds enough people indefinitely without trial, it evokes the kinds of raids, detention, and abuses of power associated with authoritarian states - or darker periods in American history.
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked in government. I've worked in competitive New York litigation, I've worked as a writer and reporte..
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama was first elected after a period of profound failure by elite and government institutions, from finance to foreign policy to Hurricane Katrina, and his first term immediately and unapologetically enacted a flurry of government solutions.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
We survey companies and ask them what the barriers to export and import are. Once we map these barriers, we sit down with the companies on one side and the government and regulatory agencies on the other and help them identify obstacles to trade and what has to be done to tackle them.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Golden State has lost its luster. We've got to change our tax system and how we fund government. We're going to have to make it easier to create jobs in California, incentivize manufacturing, really put more in the way of investment in our public school system and our institutions of higher learning if we're going to stay the Golden State.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don't think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020