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It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment.
You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.
Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.
The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.
Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.
No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures.
You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.
One of the things that the public sector banks need to do is to raise private capital from the market and not rely on government largesse.
The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.
All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs.
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.
Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!
Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.
The Chinese government would yield to the pressure from its people: it would be forced to give orders to fight - to defend its motherland!
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.
The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.
Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.
What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.
I think if we had eight or 12 of us in the Senate who came from my business background, you'd see a lot of different things in government.
My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules.
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.
I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.