What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
Adam Davidson
CreativeGovernmentPeopleYouKnow
The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front.
Michael Gove
CommunitySacrificeGovernmentPeople
I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.
Paul Watson
TruthGovernmentThinkDoingSeeUp
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein
GovernmentEndChurchResultYou
We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
Mitch Kapor
GovernmentSupportFoundationThink
Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress.
Uzodinma Iweala
ProgressGovernmentComplicatedLast
The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.
Chris Gibson
GovernmentWantConsensusFounders
By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.
Kai Bird
GovernmentYearsEthnicHappenedAny
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
John Marshall
GovernmentLibertyFirstRightLaws
Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'
William Julius Wilson
GovernmentSupportHellTalkingSaid
Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
Stafford Cripps
WalkGovernmentPeopleChaosIndia
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.
Mike Pence
PowerTimeGovernmentFreeBelieve
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
Edward Snowden
FaithGovernmentTransparencyExample
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
Jonathan Mayhew
TimeGovernmentRememberSameUs
Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
P. J. O'Rourke
JobGovernmentPeopleDoingTrying
The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.
John Bercow
JobGovernmentTeamPartyCaptain
We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.
Bruce Rauner
GovernmentMoralDutyEfficient
The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
Campbell Brown
HealthGovernmentSchoolGraduation
As director of CIA, I was responsible for everything done in the agency's name, and it didn't matter whether that was done by an agency employee, a government contractor, a liaison service on our behalf, or a source on our behalf.
Michael Hayden
ServiceGovernmentNameDoneMatter
And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.
Sharron Angle
FreedomGovernmentLoseGoKnow
We will never hear about people's Bitcoin accounts being frozen or seized by a government agency.
Roger Ver
GovernmentPeopleWillNeverFrozen
There is an interesting parallel between the 'Argo' story and '13 Hours' in that, around the world, we have 285 or so diplomatic outposts and the expectation that the local government will come to our aid if we ever come under attack on the sovereign property of the United States in an embassy.
Mitchell Zuckoff
GovernmentWorldStoryInteresting
I know it may be hard to imagine given how broken and gridlocked our politics truly are, but from the White House to, yes, Congress, the government is filled with hard-working, idealistic public servants working incredibly hard on tough issues, trying to make people's lives better and move the country, and our world, forward.
Valerie Jarrett
PoliticsBrokenGovernmentPeople
Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.
David Vitter
ConfidenceVisionGovernmentStrong
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