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  • An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state. -- Robert Zoellick
  • Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy. -- Mark Poster
  • To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do. -- Beth Simone Noveck
  • Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society. -- Carl Bernstein
  • The basis of effective government is public confidence. -- John F. Kennedy
  • The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter. -- John F. Kennedy
  • "Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others. -- Van Jones
  • New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability. -- Liam Fox
  • In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. -- Kenneth Blackwell
  • In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. -- Kenneth Blackwell
  • Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security. -- Reince Priebus
  • It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep below dangerous rises in temperature. I am pleased that this important new study shows how information and communication technology can play an essential role in saving energy. Now we need more and effective government policies that reward such action and penalize delayed responses. -- Christiana Figueres
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  • The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys. -- Ted Cruz
  • We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective. -- Jennifer Pahlka
  • There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
  • Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. -- Clement Attlee
  • After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies. -- Howard Coble
  • Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow. -- Orrin Hatch
  • With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings. -- Jim Cooper
  • Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government. -- Todd Park
  • I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious. -- Charlie Crist
  • I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution. -- Roscoe Bartlett
  • A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. -- Annie Besant
  • There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents. -- Preston Manning
  • Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving. -- Christina Romer
  • Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader. -- Jim Talent
  • When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very carefully here - effective in our expansion. We really had - expansion of government agencies and expansion of use of contractors. Effective, we were; efficient, we weren't. And so, as director of the CIA, I went after the inefficiencies part. -- Michael Hayden
  • I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers. -- Thomas Sowell
  • We cant do without government, but we do need it to be more effective. -- Jennifer Pahlka
  • If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible. -- Robert H. Frank
  • Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital. -- Michael Foot
  • The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press. -- Colin Powell
  • The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man. -- Robert Prechter
  • In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective. ... -- Phil Crane
  • Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful. -- Winston Churchill
  • I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them. -- Gerry Spence
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