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• People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

  Arlen Specter

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Government, Around, Speed

• Asia’s governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies – and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

  Paul Samuelson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Young

• This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

  Paul Robeson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Protect

• We’re one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Attention

• As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.

  Fred Allen Boyd Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Government, Believe

• Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation’s armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

  Fred Allen Boyd Jr.

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Promises, Government

• The government doesn’t have to solve everyone’s problem here.

  Paul Kurtz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

  Billy Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.

  Paul Harvey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occur, Government

• We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we’re growing the private economy.

  Franklin Raines

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Government, Percent

• Well, now, and there’s – for every dollar the federal government spends, there’s real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that’s going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.

  Franklin Raines

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Government, Hospital

• If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Certain, Despotic

• The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.

  Paul Gillmor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Government

• Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

  Paul Gillmor

  Topics in America, Future

  Tags in Government

• Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker’s departments, there is absolute chaos.

  Bill Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• Government can’t create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

  Bill Owens

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can’t drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what’s the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn’t mean lower prices for us.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

  Bill Frist

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Government