- Man
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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
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To think that we have to depend on some of the most dependent people in our population to fund our government when corporations won't even pay their fair share.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was opposed to the government telling me how to practice medicine when I was a doctor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.
- Devilish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.
- Nov 07, 2020
Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.
- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020