Quotes with government-owned

Quotes 461 till 480 of 601.

  • Anne Campbell The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Antoine Fuqua The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham The supply of government exceeds demand.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Carly Fiorina The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Lord Melbourne The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Abraham Lincoln There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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