Quotes with government

Quotes 321 till 340 of 581.

  • Bob McDonnell People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Cal Thomas People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Napoleon Public instruction should be the first object of government.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Carl Bernstein Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Davy Crockett Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
    Davy Crockett
    American folk hero, soldier, and politician (1786 - 1836)
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  • Walter Bagehot Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Ben Shapiro Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Bob Latta Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Thomas Paine Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Caleb Cushing Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Cal Thomas Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Bill Dedman State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bernard Devoto Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Richard Nixon Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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