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" Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. "
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Opinion
Bad
Bad Government
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" A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government. "
Ron DeSantis
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" The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. "
Paul Ryan
Belief
Better
Government
" Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. "
Benjamin Franklin
Money
People
Government
" I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. "
William H. Wharton
History
Suffering
Government
" I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A. "
Milton Friedman
You
Government
Internet
" Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. "
Albert Einstein
Government
Nationalism
Measles
" Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. "
Richard M. Nixon
Nothing
People
Government
" The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. "
Geronimo
Soldiers
Government
Explained
" I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Marriage
New York
Live
" Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. "
Ronald Reagan
Democracy
Worth
Dying
" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "
Bill Gates
World
Intelligence
Government
" The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government. "
Chelsea Manning
Integrity
Free
Government
" In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected. "
Michael McCaul
America
Privacy
Landscape
" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
Bill Gates
Way
Money
Government
" The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. "
Ronald Reagan
Intelligence
Business
Best
" Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity. "
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Dollar
Quantity
Year
" If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. "
Herbert Hoover
Then
Law
End
" Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.' "
Raghuram Rajan
Intelligence
Good
Power
" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "
Bill Gates
Government
Be Different
Me
" Socialism means slavery. "
Lord Acton
Socialism
Means
Government
" The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. "
Wilhelm Reich
Government
Reality
Character
" The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. "
Ronald Reagan
Service
Government
Take
" 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
" Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. "
William Penn
Think
People
Government
" 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
" There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy. "
Marsha Blackburn
Size
Government
Relationship
" The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church. "
Thomas Becket
Peace
People
Unity
" My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around. "
Mike Lee
Purpose
People
Government
" You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it. "
Colin Powell
Need
Country
You
" National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. "
Theresa May
First
Government
Duty