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Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.
At home, we have begun the monumental task of returning the government back to the people on a scale not seen in many, many years.
When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
We aspire to be a government for all New Zealanders and one that will seize the opportunity to build a fairer, better New Zealand.
To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.
That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.
Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.
I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.
I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.
Obviously if there are guns on the street there's going to be more violence. That being said, I happen not to trust the government.
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.
The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.
We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.
In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.
I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.