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• Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Inspirational, Politics, Respect, Trust

  Tags in Government, Popularity, Ignorance, Lying

• Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Government, Protect, Limits

• I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

  David Rockefeller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Believe, Government

• I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

  David Rockefeller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Believe, Government

• I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Government

• For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

  Butch Otter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Important

• What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won’t be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.

  Butch Otter

  Topics in Health, Life

  Tags in Government

• With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

  Burke Marshall

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Government, Problem

• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

  Tom Robbins

  Topics in Belief, Humor, Soul

  Tags in Government, Poor, Force, Magic

• No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government

• We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, End

• Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

  David Hume

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

  David Frum

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Like, Government

• If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

  David Frum

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

  David Eugene Price

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

  Phil Crane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Government

• We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

  David Dinkins

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Government

• Once we secure our borders – and the federal government has not done a good job – then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.

  David Dewhurst

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Believe, Government

• I hate government. I’m apolitical. Write that down. I’m not a Republican.

  Bruce Willis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Hate