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• Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  William Ralph Inge

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.

  Harold Wilson

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Government, Rule

• No one can reasonably deny that Medicare is headed for insolvency, and that Medicare’s insolvency, if not rectified, will lead to the federal government’s insolvency.

  David Limbaugh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Think, Government

• This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

  David Plouffe

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government

• I believe the public’s confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

  David Neeleman

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Government

• I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It’s a little bit phantom money.

  David Neeleman

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Government

• I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn’t squeeze out a dime.

  Dennis Kozlowski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.

  Dennis Hastert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Responsible

• The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

  Dennis Hastert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that’s a problem. It’s a fiscal problem for us.

  Dennis Hastert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution – consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.

  Dennis B. Ross

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Time, Government

• They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

  Denis Kearney

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government, Nation

• We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

  Denis Kearney

  Topics in Power, Work

  Tags in Government

• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Government, Stand, Needs

• Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren’t raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

  Deidre Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• The levels of poverty in 1933′s rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty, Government