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" There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic. "
Sean Connery
Years
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People
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" We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees. "
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" I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. "
Tony Abbott
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" 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. "
Michele Bachmann
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" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "
James Madison
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" We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man. "
Marsha Blackburn
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" 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. "
Marco Rubio
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" We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. "
Paul Ryan
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" The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. "
Walter Bagehot
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World
Best
" As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants. "
Amy Klobuchar
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People
Government
" Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. "
George Papandreou
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Money
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" Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. "
Walter Bagehot
Excellence
Good
Government
" In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history. "
Ajit Pai
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History
" In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. "
Dennis Cardoza
Democracy
Government
Power
" We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal! "
John McCain
Party
Government
Important
" All government, of course, is against liberty. "
H. L. Mencken
Course
Liberty
Government
" If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. "
Ron Paul
Work
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Run
" But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. "
Jonathan Mayhew
Same
Remember
Government
" The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong. "
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Strong
Value
Government
" For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states. "
Lydia Millet
Wolves
Gray
Time
" A Supreme Court justice needs to understand that he is not a politician. He needs to understand that the judiciary is a passive branch of government. His decisions should not proactively seek to set policy. "
Thomas Rex Lee
Policy
Justice
Decisions
" If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus. "
Sean Connery
Columbus
America
Remember
" It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law. "
Robert Kennedy
Law
Weak
Government
" The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. "
Lewis Mumford
Think
Government
Opinion
" There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated. "
Sean Connery
Challenge
Always
You
" A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. "
Harry S Truman
Run
Government
May
" The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements. "
Edmund Morgan
Election
Positive
Memory
" If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. "
Will Rogers
Pockets
Money
Government
" The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. "
Gore Vidal
Genius
Nothing
People
" As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. "
Andrew Jackson
Good
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" The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. "
Noam Chomsky
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Need