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" Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system. "
Imran Khan
Good
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Pakistan
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" But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. "
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" I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide. "
Benigno Aquino III
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" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "
Thomas Jefferson
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Wish
" Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. "
Benazir Bhutto
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" Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. "
Ronald Reagan
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View
Short
" 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. "
Gus O'Donnell
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" Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. "
Edward Gibbon
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Present
World
" Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. "
Thomas Jefferson
Moment
Without
Government
" The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy. "
Peter Schiff
Money
Free
Government
" The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. "
Lysander Spooner
Up
Injustice
Government
" Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. "
William Henry Harrison
Government
Wish
True
" Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. "
Lao Tzu
Fish
Cooking
Small
" In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. "
Voltaire
Class
Art
Possible
" The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices. "
Murray Rothbard
Fall
Persistence
Money
" America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. "
Laurence J. Peter
Avoid
Land
America
" Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries. "
Edward Snowden
Constitution
Service
Mean
" Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. "
Ben Shapiro
Realism
Cynicism
Distrust
" If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. "
George Osborne
Spending
Will
Get
" If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. "
Barry Goldwater
Leave
You
Women
" While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe. "
Whitney Tilson
Government
World
Improvement
" It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. "
Susan B. Anthony
Women
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Liberty
" In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life. "
Imran Khan
Oxford
Experience
Fact
" Truth is the glue that holds government together. "
Gerald R. Ford
Truth Is
Together
Government
" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "
Thomas Sowell
Want
Government
Life
" The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. "
Daniel Webster
Government
Made
For The People
" The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. "
Milton Friedman
Important
Think
Government
" So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! "
Eddie Izzard
American
Relationship
Feel
" Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better. "
Maria Cantwell
Working Together
Leadership
Change
" The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. "
Walter Bagehot
Strong
World
Best
" We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. "
Colin Powell
Government
Opportunity
People