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" It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. "
Andrew Jackson
Practice
Government
President
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" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "
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" I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. "
Andrew Jackson
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Big
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" I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations. "
Ziggy Marley
" There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. "
Stokely Carmichael
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" So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! "
Eddie Izzard
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Feel
" We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. "
Melina Mercouri
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" Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well. "
Matthew Lesko
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Good
Working
" Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? "
Will Rogers
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Rome
" A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward. "
Otto von Bismarck
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" Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. "
John Erskine
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Best
Painting
" If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated. "
Zhang Zhidong
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Power
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" The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. "
Vladimir Putin
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Sometimes
Government
" Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. "
Ben Shapiro
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" The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best
Govern
Ourselves
" The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. "
Ronald Reagan
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Business
Best
" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Government
Would
Selling
" Socialism means slavery. "
Lord Acton
Socialism
Means
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" The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble. "
Andrew Jackson
Laws
Constitution
Supreme
" Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. "
George Papandreou
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Money
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" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "
Bill Gates
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You
Doing
" The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. "
John McCain
People
Crisis
Government
" 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. "
John C. Calhoun
Revolution
Lost
Government
" It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. "
Gus O'Donnell
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Day
Government
" The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise. "
Jeff Bezos
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" 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. "
Larry Ellison
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Big
" Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Government
Best
Us
" 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. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Good
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" The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities. "
Pranab Mukherjee
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Government
" Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it. "
Anthony Albanese
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" So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. "
Thomas Jefferson
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Wisdom
Government