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  • Bob Schaffer It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Barbara Castle It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Harry S. Truman It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ben Shapiro It was always foolhardy for Republicans and conservatives to stake their objections to Obamacare on the number of sign-ups; Social Security is going bankrupt despite 100% enrollment. The reality is that Obama was always destined to hit his required numbers because, after all, he has the power of government to compel action.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Blake Farenthold It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Will Rogers It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Alexander Hamilton It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Barack Obama It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bernard Cornwell Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Will Rogers Just be thankful you're not getting all the government you're paying for.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Richard Nixon Let each of us ask, not just what will government do for me, but what I can do for myself.
    Speech 2e inaugural (1973)
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • John Erskine Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
    John Erskine
    American educator and author, pianist and composer (1879 - 1951)
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  • Alexander Herzen Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Rose Macaulay Life is a great and noble game between the citizen and the government.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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