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" This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. "

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" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. "

Abraham Lincoln

Liberty

Government

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" The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. "

" In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves. "

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Long

Government

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" This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. "

" Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. "

" Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. "

" The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. "

" I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

University

Boston

Government

" Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back. "

" We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. "

" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "

" As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. "

" 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. "

" The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. "

" It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. "

" The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. "

" Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. "

" 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. "

" I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. "

" 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. "

" Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information. "

" Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. "

" One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. "

" But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. "

" Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system. "

" To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country. "

Bernie Sanders

Democracy

Government

" The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government. "

" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "

" Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. "

" The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that. "