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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bob Barr When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems - sometimes without spending a penny.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Winston Churchill When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bobby Vinton When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Barry Eisler When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bob Dole When I was quite young, I put my trust in God — not government; and I never get the two confused.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Ben Shapiro When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bob Diamond When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. - they're in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Investment banks provide direct access to these buyers.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Harry S. Truman When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Harry S. Truman Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government;
    Letter to Richard Price, 08-01-1789
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Benjamin Graham Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. II, Government and Surplus Stocks, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Arthur Hoppe Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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