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" Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. "

C. Wright Mills

Economy

Political

Moral

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" Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life. "

" In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected. "

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" A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us. "

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" The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. "

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" Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. "

" When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. "

" Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. "

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Alien

Democracy

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" Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. "

" If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. "

" The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. "

" Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. "

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" It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people. "

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

" Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. "

" The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. "

" The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. "

" National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. "

" The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. "

" Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. "

" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "

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" I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers. "

" A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. "

" Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas. "