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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

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Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

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I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

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Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

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When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Answerable By The People For The People Government
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Decide Government Hesitate Latter
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

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Many are poor because of their sole reliance on government for everything

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

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We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

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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.

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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Opposition will keep the government of the day on their toes to do the right thing.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?'

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