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" In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. "

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" The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. "

Jose Rizal

Government

Speak

Truth

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

" 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. "

" The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. "

" People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. "

" Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. "

Ronald Reagan

Rights

Government

" The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. "

" Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. "

" That government is best which governs least. "

" But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. "

" There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. "

" The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. "

" 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. "

" Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending. "

" The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government. "

" Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens. "

" We, as Indian tribes, should be able to prosecute non-Indians on tribal lands. But on Indian land, we have no ability to prosecute anyone but another Indian. American Indians having status as a foreign nation is good for us, but it's not good in some ways if we don't have the jurisdictional power that the federal government claims. "

" The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State. "

" The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. "

" The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land. "

" Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret. "

" Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. "

Milton Friedman

Want

Government

" As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. "

" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "

" England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution. "

" A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. "

" If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. "

" This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. "

" I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

" Socialism requires that government becomes your god. "