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One role of government is to go where venture capital won't. -- Joe Biden
[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government. -- Barney Frank
The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do. -- Rebecca M. Blank
Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline. -- George Jones
I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system. -- Bill Gates
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. -- Milton Friedman
It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field. -- Joe Hockey
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
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
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
As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility. -- Rick Perry
Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment. -- David Blunkett
I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government. -- Roy Spencer
There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with confidence... The true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government and promoting individual freedom and opportunity. But the facts, while sad, are clear: More Americans today depend more heavily on government than ever before. -- Edwin Feulner
Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered. -- Thomas Sowell
What do you think the appropriate role of government is in society? The way I look at this job is, you want me to do X? Well, is the private sector doing X with any kind of success? Because if they are, I'd rather have them do it than have us do it. -- Chris Christie
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good. -- Milton Friedman
I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world. -- Marco Rubio
The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good. -- Gerald R. Ford
To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light. -- Hans F. Sennholz
Social entrepreneurship represents the opportunity to redefine the role of government. -- Robert Hacker
My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government. -- Rick Perry
The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us. -- Joe Lhota
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
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
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
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
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's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets. -- Michael Steele
It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to taking sensible looks at positions and understanding the proper role of government. -- Pete Hegseth
I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run. -- Clarence Thomas
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. -- Thomas Frank
It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend. -- Richard J. Codey
It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend. -- Richard J. Codey
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family. -- Grace Kelly
I play the role of Andrew Campbell on ABC Family's 'Pretty Little Liars'. -- Brandon Jones
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model. -- Lance Loud
The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny. -- Pedro Reyes
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families. -- George Gilder
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. -- Guy Kawasaki
Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history. -- Lynsi Torres
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too. -- Bruce Feiler
Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies. -- Jessica Valenti
I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women. -- Sofia Vergara
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital! -- Stephen Covey
I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life. -- Gina Rodriguez
Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education. -- Tipper Gore
While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at. -- Peter Agre
The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up. -- Hank Azaria
A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin. -- Phylicia Rashad
But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood. -- Bernice Weissbourd
If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that. -- John Lone
It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix. -- Harald zur Hausen
As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager. -- John Wells
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
The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice. -- Jeb Bush
Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice. -- William Weld
The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage -- Richard Lindzen
I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens. -- Al Franken
Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government. -- William Weld
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
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth. -- Fareed Zakaria
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
Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government -- Leon Louw
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. -- Todd Akin
While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake. -- Paul Singer
The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always. -- Rick Warren
Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it. -- Anthony Albanese
We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. -- Paul Ryan
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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