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

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" The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. "

" No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! "

" I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion. "

" The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. "

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" Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. "

" Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. "

" The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. "

" Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly. "

" Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too. "

" We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. "

" The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. "

" I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried. "

" If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home. "

" Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. "

" Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more. "

" Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can. "

" I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it. "

" I'm a rather decisive type. "

" 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. "

" America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. "

" Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System. "

" Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. "

" Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower. "

" You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. "

" Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret. "

" The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth. "

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

" Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts. "

" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "

" A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. "