Government Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

  Thomas Jefferson

  School, Parent, Belief

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.543

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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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• The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living, or the dead?

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Age, World

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.12

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• The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

  James Madison

  Majority, Minorities, Poor

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• ...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been cheerleaders for the government...They were depriving the free world of its most valuable weapon in condemning and exposing the worst human scourge since Nazism: the targeting and murder of civilians to achieve political and religious ends.

  Naomi Ragen

  Religious, Self, Political

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• [from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.

  Jasper Fforde

  Party, Intelligent, Awards

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• You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

  Salman Khurshid

  Hiccups, Body, Scar

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• Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific papers, they must appear in public, they must speak to the media and we must hear their voices. In order to get policy right, policymakers.. governments.. need to make decisions based on sound science.

  Peter Garrett

  Media, Order, Voice

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• Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

  Stafford Cripps

  Agreement, Effort, Chinese

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• Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

  Michael Newdow

  Thinking, Agreement, People

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• The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Agreement, Europe, Numbers

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• I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

  Bianca Jagger

  America, Nicaragua, Speak

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• If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  America, United States, Problem

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' - better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains - as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Heart, Views

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• If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Running, America, Way

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• 1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

  Newt Gingrich

  Underestimate, Clinton, Gop

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• Government should take management lesson from private sector.

  Newt Gingrich

  Lessons, Management, Should

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• It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

  Bill Gates

  Ideas, World, Internet Users

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• Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Media, America, United States

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• The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

  Al Sharpton

  Education, Country, People

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• As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Rights, Ideas, Issues

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• I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

  Clarence Darrow

  Misunderstood, Hell, Ifs

  As quoted in "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do" by Peter McWilliams, from 2000 Years of Disbelief (1996) edited by James A Haught, p. 817,

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• It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.

  Ayn Rand

  Party, Fighting, Leader

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.171, Penguin

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