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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
- Nov 07, 2020
It is wrong for the federal government to deny benefits or privileges to couples who have lawfully wed.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You measure a government by how few people need help.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
- Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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- Nov 07, 2020