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" Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. "
Earl Warren
Progress
Socialism
People
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" The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion. "
Preston Manning
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" The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best
Govern
Ourselves
" The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power. "
Ted Cruz
Law
View
Power
" While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe. "
Whitney Tilson
Government
World
Improvement
" We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. "
Colin Powell
Community
Government
Important
" When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same. "
Byron Dorgan
Face
Government
Tough
" No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. "
Abraham Lincoln
Good
Enough
Government
" From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life. "
Robert Kennedy
Government
Life
Moment
" It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. "
Herbert Hoover
Important
Government
Business
" Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance. "
Tom Graves
Government
Control
Compliance
" While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary. "
Steve Largent
Involvement
Government
Free
" No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt
People
Government
Help
" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. "
Abraham Lincoln
Liberty
Government
History
" Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. "
Ronald Reagan
Them
Does
Government
" Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. "
Dalton Trumbo
Democracy
Responsibility
Business
" History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. "
Vladimir Putin
Government
History
Only
" A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. "
Bob Woodward
Learn
Him
Government
" The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. "
Martin Van Buren
Thought
Excitement
Government
" Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. "
Fred Woodworth
Responsibility
Government
Evil
" 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
" A government of laws, and not of men. "
John Adams
Men
Government
Laws
" I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd. "
Jan Brewer
Good
Looking
Government
" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "
Bill Gates
Business
Problems
Government
" 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. "
Jefferson Davis
Authority
People
Power
" Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down. "
Masayoshi Son
Obstacles
Government
Best
" I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty. "
Meles Zenawi
Poverty
Government
War
" Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry. "
Gary Johnson
Government
Tell
Afraid
" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "
James Madison
Government
Past
Religion
" Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe. "
Sherrod Brown
Good
Government
Job
" When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. "
Frank Gehry
Government
Strength
Skills