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" The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
Democracy
Want
People
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" My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around. "
Mike Lee
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Government
" Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mistakes
Accept
" Democracy is an abuse of statistics. "
Jorge Luis Borges
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" But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. "
Lysander Spooner
Government
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Constitution
" 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! "
Eddie Izzard
American
Relationship
Feel
" All government wars are unjust. "
Murray Rothbard
Wars
Government
Unjust
" 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
" If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. "
Lysander Spooner
Never
Now
Honest
" Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. "
Edward Gibbon
Monarchy
Present
World
" In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over. "
Ben Bernanke
Housing
September
Two
" Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive. "
Mike Birbiglia
You
People
Government
" The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. "
Barbara Boxer
Wrong
Development
Government
" This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. "
Gracie Allen
Government
Checks And Balances
Now
" A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none. "
Robert E. Lee
Government
Sword
People
" We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. "
Alan Dershowitz
Media
Balance
Government
" He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. "
Confucius
Star
Government
Virtue
" There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. "
Bill Bryson
Time
Alcohol
America
" I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government, and a strong national defense. "
Ann Coulter
Small
Thought
Government
" The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces. "
Haile Selassie
Government
Transport
Railway
" Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students. "
Ferdinand Marcos
Mercy
Government
Authority
" 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. "
Tomi Lahren
Hypocrite
Say
Think
" Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Egg
Only
New
" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "
Thomas Jefferson
Resistance
Spirit
Wish
" 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. "
Milton Friedman
World
Way
Self
" The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad. "
Wayne Rogers
Some
Any
Party
" If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
Looks
You
Today
" Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. "
Thomas Jefferson
Our
Government
Conquest
" The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed. "
Jim Webb
Government
Black
Slavery
" The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages. "
Chuck Schumer
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" A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate. "
Doug LaMalfa
Heart
People
Government