Government Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

  Ethan Nadelmann

  Thinking, Today, Psychedelic

  "Legalization Debate Takes Off in Latin America" By Ethan Nadelmann, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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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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• This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, War, Past

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Men, Hands

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• We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Hands, Hemisphere

  Remarks to the 10th National Legislative Conference, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 03, 1965.

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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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• Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

  Steve Sheinkin

  Military, World, Grove

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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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• Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Discontent, Stills

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.128

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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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• Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Responsibility, Bankruptcy, Dues

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• First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Democracy, World, Firsts

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• Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Country, Support, Competition

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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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• It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Military, Artist, Law

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• Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

  Vicente Fox

  Average, Years, Priorities

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