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" A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. "
Spiro T. Agnew
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" American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead. "
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" The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. "
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" A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. "
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" As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. "
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" I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world. "
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" In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over. "
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" In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. "
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" The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. "
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" Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios. "
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" Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. "
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" Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer. "
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" National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. "
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" Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being. "
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" We eliminated the monarchy. We put limits on how long one person could lead our country and on the powers they held while in office. We took differences of opinion seriously - in fact, we built them into the fabric of our government. "
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" Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. "
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" Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government. "
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" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "
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" A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. "
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" Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. "
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" A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. "
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" In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from. "
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" The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. "
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" Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life. "
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" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "
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" Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. "
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" The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. "
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" Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. "
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