- People
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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
- Battles
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the quintessential swing state, Ohio has been on the front lines of battles to restrict access to the vote and make government less transparent. Conservatives know that they can't win without putting a thumb on the scale of electoral outcomes.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it is access to voting rights, representation in government, or the outsized influence of money in our political system, the opportunity to interact with and participate in democracy is available to some, but blocked for many.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
India lived in hopelessness, as the government was not responsive. It did not know what the poor needed. There was complete policy paralysis. Corruption was rampant, and terrorists used to play havoc in the country.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have realised that for want of anything substantial, the Congress is using Rafale to question the government. But people are not responding or reacting positively to them. They've had enough of this muck-raking.
- Big Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more spent on unemployment insurance.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.
- Bad Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020