Government Quotes - Page 29

• So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

  Tony Abbott

  Excuse, Week, Swear

  Tony Abbott's victory speech, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2013.

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• A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

  Tony Abbott

  Limits, Excuse, Wells

  Election victory speech, www.smh.com.au. September 7, 2013.

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• And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

  Tony Abbott

  Deeds, Excuse, Accepting

  "Tony Abbott rules out changes to the G.S.T". "Lateline", www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2013.

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• The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Agency, Hands

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• In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.

  George Washington

  Wise, Country, World

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.271

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• We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American

  Calvin Coolidge

  Ideas, America, Needs

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• In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

  Ken Blackwell

  Order, Growth, Spurs

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• The reform of government needs to continue.

  Jim Nussle

  Reform, Needs, Reformation

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• Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

  Jim Clyburn

  Believe, Giving, Drug

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• The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

  Bob Riley

  Confidence, Fighting, Simple

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• Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  School, Past, Punishment

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• In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

  Rick Santorum

  Benefits, Politics, Republican

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• The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court martial, I have been sentenced to death. I have served the Republic faithfully, and my death, as well as that of my brother, a victim like myself, and condemned in the same manner about a month ago, will sufficiently prove it. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

  Wolfe Tone

  Brother, Children, Men

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• Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Humanity, Negative

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• We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

  Barbara Jordan

  Men, Erode, Want

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way. The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor.

  Katherine Boo

  School, Years, Cities

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.216, Random House

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• A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

  Thomas Hobbes

  People, Democracy, Aristocracy

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• As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

  John Boyd Orr

  Airplane, Political, Environment

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• During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

  Norm Dicks

  Past, Years, Purpose

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• Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

  Paul Gillmor

  Aggravation, Needs, Levels

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• I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Aggravation, People, United States

  "Letter to Louis Kossuth: Concerning Freedom and Slavery in the United States".

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• I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  Children, Agony, Parent

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• If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.

  Jay Leno

  Hurt, President, Want

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• The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, Reality, People

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• When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

  Karl Hess

  Murder, Ends, Bigs

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