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" Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. "
William E. Gladstone
Good
Policy
Government
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" The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. "
Tom Clancy
People
Government
Power
" Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. "
John Perry Barlow
Privacy
Window
Government
" The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. "
Andy Rooney
Effort
Government
Progress
" The happiness of society is the end of government. "
John Adams
Society
End
Government
" Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive. "
Mike Birbiglia
You
People
Government
" We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. "
Colin Powell
Control
Work
Place
" No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. "
Thomas Jefferson
Without
Where
Government
" I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. "
Teri Garr
Step
More
Government
" Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being. "
Joe Lonsdale
Good
Important
Growth
" The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years. "
Benjamin Netanyahu
Commitment
Past
Process
" Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that. "
Michelle Obama
Government
Loved
Youth
" It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. "
William E. Gladstone
Easy
Government
People
" In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history. "
Ajit Pai
Government
Success
History
" The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people. "
Elena Kagan
Choices
Responsibility
Respect
" To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. "
Wendell Phillips
Law
You
Talk
" 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
Government
Opinion
Analysis
" I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars. "
Ted Yoho
Government
Than
More
" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "
Bill Gates
Name
Immigrants
Government
" I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers. "
Nas
Government
Say
Think
" The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. "
Barry Goldwater
Than
Act
Government
" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "
James Madison
Nature
Human
Human Nature
" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "
James Madison
People
Liberty
Happiness
" I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world. "
Henry Paulson
Government
India
World
" Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people. "
Nikki Haley
Rights
People
Government
" But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. "
Jonathan Mayhew
Same
Remember
Government
" 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. "
Ayn Rand
Darkest
Government
History
" Government is a collective unity. There is no decision by cabinet which can be attributed to one individual. "
Emmerson Mnangagwa
Decision
Government
Individual
" The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. "
Franklin Pierce
Government
Concentration
Power
" Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. "
Cullen Hightower
Government
Talk
Does
" 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. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Politics
You
Work