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

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" 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

" If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody. "

" Stupid is a great force in human affairs. "

" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "

" I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. "

" All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. "

William Henry Harrison

" Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. "

" You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. "

" This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. "

Checks And Balances

" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "

" Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices. "

Popular Culture

" Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment. "

" Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

" Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. "

" Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. "

" To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up. "

" Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. "

" The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. "

" 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. "

" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "

" The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead. "

" The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion. "

Preston Manning

" The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. "

John Paul Stevens

" Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. "

Alexander Hamilton

" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "

" The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. "

William E. Simon

" Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war. "

" Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician. "