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" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Government
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Selling
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" The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. "
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" Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. "
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" 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. "
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" The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. "
Andrew Cuomo
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" Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. "
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" The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. "
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" They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.' "
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" In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did. "
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" Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. "
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" Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification. "
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" Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do. "
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" A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. "
James Madison
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Farce
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" Regulation creates a moral hazard. "
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Moral
" Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. "
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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Just
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" If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome? "
Megan Smith
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Country
" If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb. "
William J. Clinton
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" I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer. "
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Gaze
Know
" Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. "
Thurgood Marshall
Men
Government
Giving
" Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Come
Land
Bridge
" Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. "
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Education
" If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. "
Lysander Spooner
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" If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions. "
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" I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. "
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" The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living. "
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" I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen. "
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" Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders. "
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" The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. "
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" In many... cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stability. And rather than bringing about government that is more representative and more responsive to the people, you're seeing, frankly, the opposite, or you're seeing all-out war. "
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" TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence. "
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" Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. "
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