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" This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. "
Will Rogers
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Baby
Country
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" We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can. "
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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. "
Thomas Paine
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" From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country. "
Noam Chomsky
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" As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. "
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" 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
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" 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. "
Esther Dyson
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" We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. "
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" If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. "
Anna Howard Shaw
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" People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. "
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Lawyers
Legal
" The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. "
Anthony Kennedy
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" My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government. "
Narendra Modi
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" What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. "
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" The essence of good government is trust. "
Kathleen Sebelius
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" What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. "
Donald Trump
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Men
People
" The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. "
Margaret Thatcher
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Money
" Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Life
Women
" Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. "
Gerald R. Ford
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" The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! "
Chinua Achebe
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" I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust. "
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" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "
James Madison
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Human
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" I think a good relationship that Mexico could maintain with the United States and vice versa should be based on trust, on opening - openness and constant dialogue that would allow us essentially to define, share objectives and to work towards those so as to avoid activities which are not known to the other government. "
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" Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves. "
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" All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. "
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" Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. "
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" Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. "
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" A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. "
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Bad
Government
" 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. "
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" I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. "
Robert E. Lee
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" Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. "
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" A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. "
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