Quotes 241 till 260 of 581.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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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.
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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
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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.
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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.
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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
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It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
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It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
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It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Just be thankful you're not getting all the government you're paying for.
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Let each of us ask, not just what will government do for me, but what I can do for myself.
Speech 2e inaugural (1973) -
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.
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
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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.
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Life is a great and noble game between the citizen and the government.
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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.
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Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
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