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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.
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- Sheep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
- Graduation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in providing public goods, whether it's education, health care, or other things, and two, supervising countercyclical policy - stimulus, whether it's monetary, fiscal, or otherwise.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.
- Christian Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020