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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Cook Fish Govern Great
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Close Conflict Control Dwelling
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The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

Commercial Enterprise Government Improving
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No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Dwell Feelings Find Governing
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The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

American Civil Corporate Down
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Abuse Abuse Of Power Bloated Control
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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Research Big Component Crucial
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Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Government Money Risks Private
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Against Capitalist Commercial Directed
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It is Ekiti first before Nigeria. Every politics is local, every governance starts from the home.

First Home Local Starts
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From the home, we graduate to the community, then to the local government, then to the state and to the federal.

Home State Local Federal
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The labour is Me and I am the labour, one thing you cannot take from me is that; I have opened this government for you to run.

Run Take Labour One
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I am the first governor in Nigeria that give details of allocation to workers to decide on. We have been doing that since I came.

Decide Since First Details
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I want the representative of the press to always attend our Federal Allocation Committee (FAC) meetings. That shows how transparent I run this government.

Press Always Show Run
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I told workers, no governor or public office holder can steal without the cooperation of a civil worker.

Public Civil Holder Steal
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Opposition will keep the government of the day on their toes to do the right thing.

Right Keep Day Toes
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All that governors do is to approve the money, it is civil servants that pay civil servants.

Approve Civil Money Pay
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Form Government Grown Hostile
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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

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One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Disgrace Good Government Key
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I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

Also Am Environment Governance
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Blaming Destroying Environment Fond
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I think about this every day. I wonder, 'Is today the day where everybody stops lying to themselves and realises that the government is the enemy?'

About Day Enemy Every
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We took such a beating on Bofors. As far as I know, no one from my government was involved.

Beating Far Government Involved
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I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.

Am Company Favour Government
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Enemies Example Governments Individuals
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I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Agree Compassion Disagree Emphasis
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Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

About Any Because Churches
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Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

Corporations Governor Governor Romney Guy
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Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.

Believe Friends Government Help
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Tempted Impulsive Sheer Suffer
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Proposals Time Rejected Again
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Reason Strong Intelligible World
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Bad Dullness Excellence Good
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Ruled Often Truer Governed
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Any Away Best Business
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Civil Civil Service Examination Federal
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Appetite Baby Big Canal
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Could Economy Few Government
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

English English Language Government Help
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Actually Bureau Disappear Earth
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Around Been Creator Environmental
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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Does Government Problems Solve
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Along Better Government Invent
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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Aggression Begins Believe Cheap
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People do not make wars; governments do.
Governments Make People Wars
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I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

All My Life Been Government Involved
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Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

Decisions Freedom Freedom Of Speech Goes
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