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" Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. "
Dan Rather
Public Opinion
Government
Opinion
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" The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. "
Herbert Spencer
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Human
" The American government will be whatever we all make of it. "
Megan Smith
American
Whatever
Will
" Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. "
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Opinion
Bad
Bad Government
" For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. "
Gerry Adams
Years
Over
Ireland
" Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. "
Henry David Thoreau
Place
Man
True
" We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal! "
John McCain
Party
Government
Important
" Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong. "
Reince Priebus
Great
Opportunity
Strong
" The 'Patriot Act,' 'Enhancing domestic security,' and 'Protect America' all sound great - until you realize that they're catch phrases for programs that contain roving wire taps without a warrant and the collection and sale of your personal information to the U.S. government. "
Brandon Webb
Government
America
Great
" Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts. "
Charles Koch
Government
Others
Connected
" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Over
Again
Government
" My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. "
Nicos Anastasiades
Necessary
Will
Unity
" Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations to create the appropriate incentives and discourage undesirable behaviour. It does not bully or threaten particular firms or portray traumatised refugees as a security threat. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Security
Government
Create
" The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. "
Milton Friedman
Work
Government
Free
" 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
Going
Us
Rome
" The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices. "
Murray Rothbard
Fall
Persistence
Money
" Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. "
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Government
Just
Opportunity
" Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Against
Guns
Government
" A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. "
Dambisa Moyo
Money
Free
Long
" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "
Edmund Burke
Human
Government
Compromise
" The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. "
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Act
Peace
Two
" It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. "
Andrew Jackson
Powerful
Selfish
Own
" The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. "
Lord Acton
Unfit
Government
Govern
" 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
Name
You
Say
" The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. "
Calvin Coolidge
Extinction
Government
Rights
" The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that. "
Pat Paulsen
Government
Lose
Postal
" The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. "
David Mamet
Man
Rich
Best
" Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence. "
Mike Barnicle
Government
Roots
Rebellion
" If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. "
Milton Friedman
Government
Politics
Sand
" I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system. "
Eric Idle
Health
Government
Roads
" The government is us; we are the government, you and I. "
Theodore Roosevelt
Us
Government
You