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" Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. "

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" One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue. "

" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. "

" The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. "

" The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that. "

" The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications. "

" There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained. "

" We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it. "

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" Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. "

William Lyon Mackenzie King

" No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards. "

Donella Meadows

" We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. "

" Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. "

" My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards. "

Michael Madigan

" I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. "

Alexander Woollcott

" I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. "

" The government is us; we are the government, you and I. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A. "

Milton Friedman

" The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land. "

" If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. "

" The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. "

" The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. "

" A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us. "

Phyllis Schlafly

" The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. "

" I think a good relationship that Mexico could maintain with the United States and vice versa should be based on trust, on opening - openness and constant dialogue that would allow us essentially to define, share objectives and to work towards those so as to avoid activities which are not known to the other government. "

Enrique Pena Nieto

" The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. "

" Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence. "

" In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "