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We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence. -- Marco Rubio
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies. -- William Bennett
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. -- Ron Wyden
I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste. -- Gwynne Shotwell
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable. -- Jim DeMint
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation. -- Richard M. Nixon
In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down. -- Rick Perry
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular. -- Jill Lepore
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other. -- J. C. Watts
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective. -- Ben Bernanke
We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional. -- Vicky Hartzler
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! -- Ronald Reagan
President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can't win the prosperity of tomorrow if you're mortgaging it to pay for the big government programs of today. -- John Thune
If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal. -- Ernest Istook
You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security. -- Rick Scott
Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons. -- James Surowiecki
We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what government programs that have been given to the American people that are unsustainable promises that have been made by reckless politicians that can't possibly be sustained. We can determine which one of those if any we need to keep. -- Todd Rokita
Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt. -- Eric Cantor
Everything is temporary. Well, except government programs. -- Brooke Bida
When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not. -- Evan Wolfson
Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody. -- Larry Elder
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats. -- Ronald Reagan
Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities -- Neil Young
Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve. -- John Pugsley
The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes. -- Jim Babka
Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy. -- James Cook
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere. -- Barton Gellman
Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition... -- Mitch McConnell
The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments. -- Seth Klarman
By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways. -- Robert Higgs
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal. -- Peter Drucker
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector. -- Ronald Reagan
It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth. -- Ronald Reagan
Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life. -- Alveda King
After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding. -- Tony Campolo
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. -- Robert Scheer
Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government. -- Mark Steyn
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government. -- Birch Bayh
Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money. -- Michael Enzi
There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved. -- Chuck Grassley
The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy. -- Richard Ebeling
Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program. -- Tony Campolo
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs. -- Thomas Sowell
Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs. -- Oliver DeMille
My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life. -- Gough Whitlam
Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place. -- Jim Hightower

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