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" 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
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" Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. "
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" The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are. "
Michael Steele
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" But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem. "
Jonah Goldberg
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" The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. "
H. L. Mencken
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" Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. "
Bill Gates
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" I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock. "
Bill Gates
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Lot
Microsoft
" Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career. "
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Focus
" We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf. "
Jill Stein
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" The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government. "
Chelsea Manning
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Free
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" All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion. "
Narendra Modi
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" A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. "
Grover Cleveland
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Intelligence
People
" Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough. "
Bill Gates
New Things
Great
Tough
" Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower. "
Lee Hyeon-seo
Woman
Women
Man
" The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. "
H. L. Mencken
Moral
Government
Limit
" The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. "
Voltaire
Best
Government
Tyranny
" There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy. "
Marsha Blackburn
Size
Government
Relationship
" Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. "
Bill Gates
Easy
Questions
Petty
" If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? "
Bill Gates
Line
Finish
Finish Line
" I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. "
Bill Gates
Elderly
Young
Think
" Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. "
Edmund Burke
Unjust
Turns
Out
" 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
Human Nature
Government
Human
" We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs. "
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" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "
Abraham Lincoln
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People
Allow
" We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care. "
Heidi Heitkamp
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Here
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" Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. "
Ayn Rand
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Government
" I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself. "
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Mouth
Government
" There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people. "
Ray Bradbury
" Short of a space-alien invasion or an Oklahoma tornado, there is almost no problem that a democracy can tackle in a year. But that isn't why we have a government. We have a government to solve the problems that greedy, short-sighted businessmen like me can't. "
Glenn Kelman
Short
Problems
Government
" I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. "
Benazir Bhutto
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Elections
Contest
" I think a good relationship that Mexico could maintain with the United States and vice versa should be based on trust, on opening - openness and constant dialogue that would allow us essentially to define, share objectives and to work towards those so as to avoid activities which are not known to the other government. "
Enrique Pena Nieto
Good
Relationship
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