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" I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. "

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" We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. "

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Government

Balance

America

" Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. "

" 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. "

" Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.' "

" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "

" Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. "

Richard Scaife

Strong

Ideas

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

" It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. "

" I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. "

" I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. "

" It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. "

" A government of laws, and not of men. "

" A man without a vote is man without protection. "

" This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. "

" We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. "

" In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. "

" It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. "

Alan Shepard

Space

Safety

" It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republican

Important

" I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park. "

" 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. "

" I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

Right

Feel

" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "

" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "

" If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. "

" Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government. "

" As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same. "

" If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors. "

" If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. "

" The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are. "

" A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. "