Government Policy Quotes

• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Thinking, People

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• Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

  William E. Gladstone

  Home, Government, Principles

  Speech, West Calder, Scotland, November 27, 1879.

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• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Law Courts, Government, Libertarian Party

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of all elements that might relate to a particular issue.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Issues, Government, Trying

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

  Henry Paulson

  Believe, Government, Roots

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• In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Thinking, Government, Mind

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Two, Evil

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.100, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Names, Government, People

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• If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Hands, Nsa

  "President Obama's speech on NSA surveillance reforms - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2014.

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• The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

  Alice Waters

  Government, Mcdonalds, Insane

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• Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.

  Russell Brand

  Religious, Psychosis, Government

  "Wild emotions are all very well, Russell Brand, but then what?" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2013.

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• It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

  Ron Paul

  Government, Libertarian, Patriot

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• It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

  Tipper Gore

  Government, Ideas, Lenses

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.

  Reince Priebus

  Country, Disappointment, Tired

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• I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party.

  Jonathan Moyo

  Party, Odds, Government

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• You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, People, Support

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• The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance they feel toward Indians is somehow 'felt' or transferred to the government policy that deals with Indians. This is not the case.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Believe, Government, People

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• In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

  Laura Poitras

  Government, Trying, Policy

  "Laura Poitras Talks CITIZENFOUR, Her First Impression of Edward Snowden, Her Commitment to Fearless Adversarial Journalism and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 26, 2014.

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• But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Succeed, Groups

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• Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Government, Tariffs, Regulation

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• It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.

  William J. Clinton

  Reality, Government, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  Hank Johnson

  Taken, Government, People

  "A Letter to My Ancestor: Frederick Douglass" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2013.

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• It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history -- free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Powerful, Crazy, Believe

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

  Nigel Farage

  Government, Greed, Banking

  "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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