940 private quotes tagged government

“We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.” — Theresa May

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“The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.” — Sam Ewing

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“And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.” — Patricia Hewitt

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“This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.” — John Wycliffe

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“All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.” — Adam Carolla

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“Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.” — Marsha Blackburn

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“The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.” — Jonathan Krohn

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“The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.” — Benazir Bhutto

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“The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.” — Noam Chomsky

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“As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.” — Theodore Bikel

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“If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.” — Neal Boortz

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“If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.” — King Abdullah II

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“Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.” — Robert Taft

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“There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.” — Sean Connery

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“If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.” — Gary Hart

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“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.” — Richard Lamm

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“My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.” — Eartha Kitt

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“We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.” — Barbara Jordan

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“I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.” — Curt Schilling

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“Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.” — Nancy Pelosi

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“No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.” — Kevin Mitnick

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“Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.” — William Godwin

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“For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.” — Gerry Adams

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“Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.” — Paul Tsongas

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