Government Quotes - Page 38

• Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

  Walter Bagehot

  Quality, Doe, Bureaucracy

  Walter Bagehot (1872). “The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the"Fortnightly Review."”, p.194

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• Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Lobbyists, Lobbying

  "Management".

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• I am a psychologically disabled person and it's difficult for me to get and hold down a job. When I don't work people accuse me of being lazy, taking advantage of government money

  Rhonda Byrne

  Jobs, People, Lazy

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• The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.

  John Marshall

  Men, Law, United States

  John Marshall (1839). “The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution”, p.11

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• The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Confusion, Anarchy

  Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

  Donald O. Hebb

  Simple, Brain, May

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• Americans whisper the word Alzheimer's because their government whispers the word Alzheimer's. And although a whisper is better than the silence that the Alzheimer's community has been facing for decades, it's still not enough. It needs to be yelled and screamed to the point that it finally gets the attention and the funding that it deserves and needs.

  Seth Rogen

  Alzheimer's, Silence, Community

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• I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us.

  James F. Byrnes

  Views, Hands, United States

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• We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

  Rick Mercer

  Change, Fun, Names

  "This Hour Has 22 Minutes". TV Series, (1992 - ).

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• When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Rights, Community, Competition

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• When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  New York, Rights, San Francisco

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• What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Republican Government, United States, World

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2009). “Democracy in America: Volumes I & II”, p.754, The Floating Press

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• We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

  Richard Perle

  Europe, Paris, Should

  David Frum, Richard Norman Perle (2004). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, Ballantine Books

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• This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests of their citizens, but only one State will remain. Basic things will be decided by a remote 'federal government' in Brussels and, for example, Czech citizens will be only a tiny particle whose voice and influence will be almost zero. ... We are against a European superstate.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Zero, Europe, Voice

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• The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

  Richard Perle

  Country, Terrorist, Prepared

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.209, Random House

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• It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the [European] Community. In case such a rumour may have reached your ears, Mr Chancellor... it is only fair that I should advise you frankly to dismiss it (as my own colleagues did, long ago). We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Long Ago, Europe

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at dinner in honour of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, www.margaretthatcher.org. May 10, 1979.

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• Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Views, Europe, Voting

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• Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

  Deidre Hall

  Years, Eyebrows, Misled

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• It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

  Tipper Gore

  Ideas, Lenses, Looks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of government to harass or destroy their free-market competitors.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Dark, Fda, Political

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• In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.

  Phil Crane

  Believe, Dark, Men

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• The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Taken, Dark, House

  G. Edward Griffin (1997). “World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17”, p.178, Dubois Publishing

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• I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.

  Stephen Young

  Cancer, Moving, Dark

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• Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much less freedom of choice.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Running, Cancer, Dark

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• One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.

  Connie Sellecca

  Blessing, Fishing, Long

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