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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
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in less government interference in people's personal lives, including whom to marry, when and whether to bear a child and how to raise kind and compassionate children.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society, raising the living standards and well-being of all.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority of any government?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people are going to be made worse off, the government should at least let them know. I don't think that's asking too much.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the 2010 election campaign, Liberal Democrat candidates, including Swinson, signed the National Union of Students pledge to vote against tuition fees. Looking back, students were among the first to see the reality of the Liberal Democrats in government.
- Authorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
2018 marks 30 years since Margaret Thatcher's government introduced Section 28, one of its most abominable policies. As a part of the Local Government Act, this Section was designed to prevent local authorities and schools from the so-called promotion of LGBT+ issues.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took 15 years and a Labour government to finally see Section 28 taken off the statute books. But this victory belongs to the LGBT+ activists who campaigned for so many years, fighting for change from the ground up.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 16, out of school and pregnant, my own life could have been written off. It was the help I had from some of the then Labour government's policies such as Sure Start that turned it around.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020