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• I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

  Chuck D

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• After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

  Jurgen Habermas

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• I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

  Henry Paulson

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• There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their ‘not invented here’ and ‘we have more important problems than education’ attitudes.

  James Patterson

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• The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn’t poor.

  Charlayne Hunter Gault

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• People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce.

  Jeremy Hunt

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• From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

  Stephane Hessel

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• Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

  Peter Blair Henry

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  Governments? I don’t trust any of them. They exist solely to defend the interest of the rich and powerful. They’re not there for you; you know that in your hearts.

  Russell Brand

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• Beginning in 1973 and then acts in ’77, ’78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

  Frederick Smith

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• With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

  Bill Schuette

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• So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

  Elbert Hubbard

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• The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.

  Kevin Rudd

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• 2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.

  Kevin Rudd

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• All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

  Bruce Jackson

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• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it’s not a religion. It’s a political system. It’s a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  Pat Robertson

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• Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

  Peter Garrett

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• I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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• To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods.

  Frank B. Kellogg

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• The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

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