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" New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. "

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" Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. "

Hugo Black

Off

Free

Government

" By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. "

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

" The world is not going to be saved by legislation. "

" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "

" Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. "

" But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. "

" Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. "

" One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. "

Huey Long

Government

Days

" 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. "

" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "

" The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes. "

" The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. "

" Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other. "

" I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia. "

" The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "

" Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. "

" The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things. "

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Great

Free

Purpose

" Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. "

" American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. "

" Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent. "

" I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

University

Boston

Government

" While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. "

" There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do. "

" Financial crises require governments. "

" All socialism involves slavery. "

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

" Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government. "

" Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. "

Edward Abbey

Country

Poor

" I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice. "