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" Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. "
Ronald Reagan
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" A government is for the benefit of all the people. "
William Howard Taft
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" A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated. "
Donna Brazile
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" The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. "
Milton Friedman
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" We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo. "
Vito Fossella
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" Government is a collective unity. There is no decision by cabinet which can be attributed to one individual. "
Emmerson Mnangagwa
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" England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution. "
John C. Calhoun
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" I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. "
Robert E. Lee
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" When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. "
Frank Gehry
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Strength
Skills
" Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. "
Mackenzie King
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" Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people. "
William McKinley
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" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "
Bill Gates
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Problems
Government
" Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent. "
Steven Pinker
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Look
" To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. "
Ronald Reagan
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Intention
Economy
" From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country. "
Noam Chomsky
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Late
" Man is not free unless government is limited. "
Ronald Reagan
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Man
" 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. "
Milton Friedman
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Great
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" The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. "
Vladimir Putin
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Sometimes
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" The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. "
Lyn Nofziger
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" The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. "
Mike Pence
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Today
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" There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special. "
Valerie Jarrett
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Work
" Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. "
Hubert H. Humphrey
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" I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty. "
Meles Zenawi
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" Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. "
Ronald Reagan
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" Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. "
Hugo Black
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" The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government. "
Chelsea Manning
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" Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. "
Ronald Reagan
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" The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. "
Hugo Black
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People
Free
" They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. "
Ronald Reagan
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Simple
" The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
Dictatorship
World
Government
" A government of laws, and not of men. "
John Adams
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