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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
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget deficits.
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the consumer with the best products at the lowest prices.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
In rural communities, people are upset with the government, upset with what they see as business as usual. They saw Obama as a change agent, and they saw Donald Trump as a change agent.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom means the U.S. government not being the main threat to countries around the world.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
- Forefathers
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- Nov 07, 2020