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" Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending. "
Bob Woodward
Government
Sad
Ending
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" Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. "
George Mason
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Community
Kind
" Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. "
Steve Allen
Improve
Politicians
Government
" I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?' "
Gary Johnson
Government
Thought
People
" 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
" Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government. "
Bob Woodward
Done
More
Accountability
" I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system. "
Eric Idle
Health
Government
Roads
" Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. "
Gerald R. Ford
People
Government
Great
" The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. "
Evita Peron
Joy
I Am
Government
" A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. "
Lysander Spooner
Character
Government
Most
" The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. "
Ludwig von Mises
Mankind
Endure
Bad
" Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong. "
Reince Priebus
Great
Opportunity
Strong
" The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision. "
Ho Chi Minh
Positive
Decision
Want
" I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government. "
Gary Coleman
Government
Eyes
I Can
" Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. "
Dalton Trumbo
Democracy
Responsibility
Business
" A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. "
Spiro T. Agnew
Government
Monopoly
Fraternity
" What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it. "
Mark Levin
Constitution
Face
Government
" The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. "
Lord Acton
Unfit
Government
Govern
" On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. "
Will Rogers
World
Democracy
Government
" It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. "
Gus O'Donnell
You
Day
Government
" The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. "
William E. Simon
Today
Government
Group
" An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. "
Confucius
Than
Feared
Government
" Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more. "
Thomas Sowell
Always
Government
More
" The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders. "
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Kind
Government
Responsibility
" Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations to create the appropriate incentives and discourage undesirable behaviour. It does not bully or threaten particular firms or portray traumatised refugees as a security threat. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Security
Government
Create
" Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. "
P. J. O'Rourke
You
Government
Good
" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "
Alice Walker
Power
People
Government
" We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care. "
Heidi Heitkamp
Care
Here
Quality
" It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. "
Andrew Jackson
Practice
Government
President
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Information
Nothing
Government
" Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. "
Grover Cleveland
Support
Though
Government