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" We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. "

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" I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world. "

Henry Paulson

Government

India

World

" Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life. "

" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "

" I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers. "

" It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. "

Alan Shepard

Space

Safety

" That government is best which governs least. "

" I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. "

" A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. "

" 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. "

" It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. "

" The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are. "

" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "

" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "

" No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. "

" But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem. "

" 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. "

" Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, 'Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.' "

" This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. "

" It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people. "

" Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. "

" I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people. "

" Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. "

" The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. "

" People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. "

" 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. "

" As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. "

" Government is essentially immoral. "