Government Quotes - Page 26

• Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Father, Long, Democracy

  Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1977). “Sailor Historian: The Best of Samuel Eliot Morison”

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• If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

  John Cornyn

  Meaningful, Obamacare, People

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• Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is going to crumble. If countries of Third World cannot pay their debts, you are going to suffer here in the North. If you do not take care of the Third World, your well-being is not going to last, and you will not be able to continue living in the way you have been much longer. It is leaping out at us already. You cannot leave the job to the governments or the political scientists alone. You have to do it yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Country, Jobs, Mean

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• This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

  Jacques Delors

  Distance, Long, Weakening

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• We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.

  Bobby Seale

  Average, Talking, White

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• If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Believe, Boys

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• All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Evil, Anarchy, Anarchist

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• Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.

  Barack Obama

  Differences, People, Enemy

  Profile in The Independent Magazine, March 10, 2007.

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• As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

  Stanislav Grof

  Long, Energy, Research

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• I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

  Todd Akin

  Hippie, Treats, Homosexual

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• We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Self, Quiet, Tranquility

  C. E. Donkoh, Kwame Nkrumah (1978). “Mother Africa mourns Kwame Nkrumah, the Emancipator”

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• Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

  Sidney Altman

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Land

  Sidney Altman's speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Voting, Records, Regulation

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• If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Would Be, Needs

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.64, Fordham Univ Press

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• Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.

  Peter Costello

  House, Balance, Groups

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• Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

  Ben Quayle

  Math, Years, Numbers

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• Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Men, Choices, Heaven

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• I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.

  Susan B. Anthony

  College, Men, Mind

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• Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Believe, Empowering, Degrees

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• I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

  Richard Cobden

  India, Emergencies, England

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.392

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• We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.

  Alexis Herman

  Technology, Growth, Decline

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• When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.

  Melissa Bean

  Real, Unique, Technology

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• Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Lying, Writing

  "Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, 1963.

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• If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Host, Shows, Congressman

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