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" If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. "

Barry Goldwater

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" The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy. "

" I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship. "

Bharati Mukherjee

" Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. "

" I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go . "

" The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision. "

" While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. "

" Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. "

Thomas Jefferson

" 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. "

" If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. "

Henry David Thoreau

" 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

" Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society. "

" Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "

Barry Goldwater

" Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college. "

" It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. "

" As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower. "

" The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language. "

" I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage. "

Jose Antonio Vargas

" Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.' "

" One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. "

" You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better. "

" Every country has the government it deserves. "

Joseph de Maistre

" No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'. "

" History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. "

" If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. "

Anna Howard Shaw

" Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. "

George Bernard Shaw

" A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. "

" The Canary Islands offer special incentives to companies looking at potential filming locations, so it was only logical for me to help the local government make connections with major U.S. film studios like Universal, Fox, Sony, Disney, Paramount, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, CBS, Viacom, Comcast, HBO, Netflix, Warner Brothers etc. "

" I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. "

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" Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. "

Henry David Thoreau