- 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
When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.
- Nov 07, 2020
The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.
- Governmental Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.
- Nov 07, 2020
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020