- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government Quotes
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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
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Markets do not run better when manufacturing shifts to China largely because of the actions of its government. Nor do they become more efficient when Chinese companies are given special privileges in global markets, while American companies must struggle to compete with unfairly traded goods.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is about institutions: it's about having things like schools and judiciary and the Ford Foundation, or 'The Nation' magazine - you need progressive institutions, you know what I mean? Those are important institutions to make sure that the government functions.
- Government Policies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020