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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.
I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.
I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.
If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.
Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.
The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country.
When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.
Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.
Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments.
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.
I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.
We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbekistan
Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'
Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.
Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.
The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.
The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.