Government Work Quotes

• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Sun Yat-sen

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Democracies Have

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• It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

  Bernie Sanders

  Government

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• The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Today, Bigs

  Barack Obama (2009). “The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance”, p.11, Penguin

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• The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

  Clifford Stoll

  Teacher, Government, Cds

  "The 5 Stages of Social Media Grief" by Brett King, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2010.

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• The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Peace, Children

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• Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.

  Dana Gould

  Believe, Government, Republican

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• We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need to open our ears. The American people are not whispering to us. They are screaming to us. And they're screaming to us that it's our job to actually make this government work.It's so dysfunctional under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's so ineffective. It's so ineffectual that the American people say, we don't trust them to do anything anymore. So I'm not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees in this country.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Jobs, Government

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• How our government works... it doesn't.

  Lewis Black

  Government, Working It

  "Nothing's Sacred". Book by Lewis Black, March 22, 2005.

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• Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Running, Government, Tea

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• The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very powerfully influences how the government works and it of course influences corporate sector elements, like say how Google or Amazon present materials that reach the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Media, Google

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Ideas, Government, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

  Jane Jacobs

  Government, People, Accountability

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.103, Vintage

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• Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

  Jon Tester

  Government, Shady, Deals

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• If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

  William Greider

  Government, Order, Volunteer

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government

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• We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.

  Bernie Sanders

  Political Revolution, Years, Class

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• Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

  George Clooney

  Government, Shutting Down

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• I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Government

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• Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

  Matthew Lesko

  Appreciation, Rap, Government

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• All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

  Michael Moore

  Government, Prey, Naive

  "#MooreandMe: the hashtag that roared" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2010.

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• I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Real, Responsibility, Government

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• Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

  Jesse Ventura

  Responsibility, Government, Citizens

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.22, Villard

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• WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Lying, Government

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2012). “63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

  Stephen Hawking

  Government, Abuse, Glare

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