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" Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. "

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" Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners. "

Dirk Kempthorne

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" The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. "

" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "

" We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. "

" I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built. "

" Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T. "

Louie Gohmert

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" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "

" Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance. "

" It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. "

" Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down. "

" Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate. "

" Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country. "

" Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. "

" In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. "

" My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government. "

" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "

" As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. "

" Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society. "

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

" Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. "

" The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion. "

" 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! "

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "

" You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better. "

" The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. "

" I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world. "

" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "

" As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. "

" A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. "

" Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. "