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In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. -- Grover Cleveland
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. -- Richard M. Nixon
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion. -- Stephen Harper
News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage. -- Robert Reich
The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster. -- Rachel Sklar
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. -- John Adams
Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. -- Alexander Hamilton
It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom. -- Lucy Burns
If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way. -- Tony La Russa
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. -- Thomas Bulfinch
In my view, it is important that our national government exercise leadership to improve the resiliency of the entire nation in the face of continuing extreme weather. -- Matt Cartwright
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly. -- David Souter
The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government -- Stanley Milgram
The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments. -- Peace Pilgrim
It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government. -- Alan Dershowitz
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require. -- Alexander Hamilton
Most people would agree that the E.U. is too bureaucratic, not transparent or democratic enough and that it often interferes too much in matters that are best left to national governments. -- Nicola Sturgeon
The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality. -- Adolf Hitler
We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions -- Gordon Brown
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation. -- Joseph Story
Whether Canada ends up with one national government or two governments or 10 governments, the Canadian people will require less government no matter what the constitutional status or arrangement of any future country may be. -- Stephen Harper
It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government. -- Mark Warner
Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they're not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements. -- Howard Zinn
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. -- Joseph Story
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. -- Charles Edison
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government. -- Joseph Story
It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed. -- James A. Garfield
I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to the rights of its citizens, but that it does not require Congress to give its approval before the president uses force abroad. -- John Yoo
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience. -- Carol Moseley Braun
The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments. -- Peter Drucker
One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development. -- Gilbert F. White
In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government. -- James A. Garfield
A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson's vehicle for expanding the Southern economy and making it, as he hoped, one of the more prosperous regions of the country. -- Robert Dallek
If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be. -- Ilana Mercer
If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. -- Bill Kristol
I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it. -- Stephen Harper
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities. -- Alexander Hamilton
The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government. -- Fritz Sauckel
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. -- Breyten Breytenbach
My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. -- Nicos Anastasiades
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities. -- Brian Mulroney
Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans. -- Kofi Annan
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. -- Jill Lepore
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. -- Kofi Annan
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense. -- Don Nickles
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
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. -- Ayn Rand
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account. -- Al Franken
In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government. -- Monica Crowley
Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government. -- Grover Norquist
I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility. -- Ashraf Ghani
A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders. -- Masaru Emoto
With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality. -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews. -- Arthur Balfour
The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government. -- Franz von Papen
The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society. -- Adolf Hitler
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. -- Bertrand Russell
From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8. -- Paul Gigot
The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years. -- Barbara Holland
As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy. -- May-Britt Moser
I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty. -- Olympia Snowe
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. -- Theresa May
Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough! -- Michael Bloomberg
The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government. -- Joseph Addison
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes. -- Ernst Zundel
A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon. -- Edward Abbey
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments. -- Melina Mercouri
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
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational. -- Jon Postel
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
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas. -- Brock Chisholm
As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results. -- Barack Obama
Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way? -- Bob Schieffer
Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government. -- Joe Donnelly
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
Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities. -- George F. Kennan
We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams. -- Francisco Franco
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside. -- Vladimir Putin
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price. -- Ashraf Ghani
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
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. -- Douglas MacArthur
I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan, -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East. -- Richard Armitage
It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections. -- George Washington

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