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" There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. "

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" Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. "

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" We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. "

" Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions. "

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" Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs. "

" Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. "

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" The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit. "

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

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" Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. "

" 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 more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

" No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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. "

" Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. "

" If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. "

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" My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that. "

" The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. "

" While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary. "

" One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide. "

" Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. "

" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "

" I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else. "

" Every country has the government it deserves. "

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" Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe. "

" The American government will be whatever we all make of it. "

" I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else. "

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