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

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" Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. "

" The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003. "

" What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press. "

" The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities. "

Pranab Mukherjee

" Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. "

" The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. "

" Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living. "

" For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. "

" On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. "

" Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. "

" My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields - from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation's armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships. "

Marillyn Hewson

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

Victoria Woodhull

" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "

Abraham Lincoln

" A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. "

" To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. "

" Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it. "

" 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. "

" I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies. "

" It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers. "

" What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. "

" Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. "

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" Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. "

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. "

" But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. "