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" Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. "

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" Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed. "

" For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own. "

" The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. "

" To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. "

" Democracy passes into despotism. "

" It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. "

George Washington

" In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over. "

" A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. "

" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. "

William E. Gladstone

" The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. "

" My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. "

Grover Norquist

" The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications. "

" Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. "

Sydney J. Harris

" The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit. "

" A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. "

" It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. "

" You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. "

" The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. "

" The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. "

" The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty. "

" We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have. "

" Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. "

" We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. "

Richard M. Nixon

" When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment. "

Valerie Jarrett

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" Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. "

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