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I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy. -- Albert Wynn
Micro managing anything is not a great role for government. -- William Weld
And government's only role is to secure our rights for us. -- Roy Moore
Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable. -- Lionel Jospin
Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice. -- William Weld
Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction. -- Henry W. Kendall
I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens. -- Al Franken
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women. -- Jenny Shipley
Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government. -- William Weld
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth. -- Fareed Zakaria
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. -- William Weld
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion. -- Preston Manning
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. -- Todd Akin
I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles. -- Don Nickles
The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us. -- Joe Lhota
The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always. -- Rick Warren
While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake. -- Paul Singer
Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it. -- Anthony Albanese
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. -- Richard Perle
I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better. -- Scott Walker
I've always believed as a value that the government has a vital - not overwhelming, but vital - role to play in furthering human welfare and good. I think we have an important supportive role to play, hopefully intelligent and sensible. -- Dick Gephardt
One role of government is to go where venture capital won't. -- Joe Biden
Social entrepreneurship represents the opportunity to redefine the role of government. -- Robert Hacker
[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government. -- Barney Frank
The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice. -- Jeb Bush
The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage -- Richard Lindzen
Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline. -- George Jones
The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do. -- Rebecca M. Blank
My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government. -- Rick Perry
Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive. -- Max Anders
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role. -- Edward Abbey
I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system. -- Bill Gates
Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government -- Leon Louw
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. -- Milton Friedman
We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. -- Paul Ryan
It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field. -- Joe Hockey
Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government? -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains. -- Noam Chomsky
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. -- Rush Limbaugh
My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules. -- Cass Sunstein
Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government? -- Gustavo Gutiérrez
As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital. -- Donald Evans
We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local? -- Nancy Pelosi
The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people. -- Matthew Continetti
Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. -- Charles Krauthammer
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. -- Larry Ellison
Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education. -- Robert Draper
I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist. -- Jack Abramoff
All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues. -- Jay Weatherill
The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making sure government cannot encroach. -- Rush Limbaugh
The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy. -- Oliver North
I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything. -- Rick Warren
Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time. -- Barack Obama
The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role. -- Girma Woldegiorgis
When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role. -- Shane Claiborne
The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track. -- Ted Haggard
I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone. -- Joichi Ito
There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families. -- Marco Rubio
I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives. -- George W. Bush
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States. -- George W. Bush
To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success. -- James Langevin
These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment. -- Bernie Sanders
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true. -- Milton Friedman
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. -- Paul Ryan

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