- Power
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.
- Dalai
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
My government has taken significant measures to enable the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in our country.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Building a 'Green Gabon' has always been a central pillar of my government, and in 2014, I introduced a new legal framework that puts environmental protection and sustainable development firmly at the heart of our future economic growth.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
- Criminal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.
- Nov 07, 2020
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020