Quotes with self-government

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  • Carly Fiorina We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Kwame Nkrumah We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • John F. Kennedy We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Savage Landor We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Bob Menendez We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bob Livingston We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
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  • Carl Paladino We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bob Wise Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.
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  • Afrika Bambaataa Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • A. P. Herbert Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Bill Clinton Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Marilyn French Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 93.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Bob Beauprez What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Mark Twain What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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