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I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.
Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.
I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Not from my point of view....[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.
We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.
Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.
There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.
I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.
I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
Obamacare is not about health care. Obamacare is about the expansion of government and the total loss of freedom.
It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.
The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.
International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.
The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.
Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.