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" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "

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" 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

" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "

" I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. "

" The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. "

" Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. "

" I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. "

" I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? "

" My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff. "

" There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained. "

" In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history. "

" I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! "

" Voters quickly forget what a man says. "

" To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. "

" The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. "

" You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. "

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

" I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. "

" In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. "

" The heavy hand of government and its rules are causing family businesses to shutter their doors. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Government

Rules

Hand

" The essence of good government is trust. "

" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "

" I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried. "

" Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf. "

" But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. "

" 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. "

" Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. "

" Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. "

" Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. "

" Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. "

" The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs. "