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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. -- Edward Abbey
There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people. -- David Nabarro
Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race. -- Craig Kilborn
At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain. -- Randal Cremer
Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe. -- Antonis Samaras
My government will make efforts to realize the farming potential of rain-fed and dry land areas by ensuring healthy participation by all stakeholders and convergence of various government sponsored programs. -- Pratibha Patil
The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it. -- Richard Engel
Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things. -- Jakaya Kikwete
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If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world. -- David Rockefeller
Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade. -- Leonard Read
Critics have noted Schwarzenegger's only previous government experience was serving under President Bush senior as Chairman of the Council of Physical Fitness, a largely symbolic office, where Schwarzenegger's only responsibility was doing hundreds of jumping jacks he was going to do anyway. -- Jon Stewart
The government is us; we are the government, you and I. -- Theodore Roosevelt
And government's only role is to secure our rights for us. -- Roy Moore
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. -- Thomas Jefferson
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more. -- Antonio Banderas
Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel. -- Jeff Flake
Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us? -- Dwayne Andreas
Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality. -- Al Franken
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. -- Woody Allen
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. -- Leo Tolstoy
I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government, creates jobs. -- Scott Walker
We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us? -- Anna Deavere Smith
The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not. -- Eric C. Anderson
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us. -- Richard Perle
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The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us. -- Joe Lhota
That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government. -- Lyn Nofziger
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. -- Ronald Reagan
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The government endangers us with our own money. -- James Cook
Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran. -- Ron Paul
Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us -- Carl Sagan
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. -- Thomas Jefferson
You deserve better from your entire government, all of us. -- George Tenet
I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. -- Ronald Reagan
The US government should not be in the business of discrimination. -- Christine Gregoire
Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. -- Henry Hazlitt
Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts. -- Jay Leno
We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. -- Ronald Reagan
A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society. -- Ian Harris
The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works -- Edward Snowden
Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us. -- David Suzuki
Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us. -- Molly Ivins
The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. -- Barbara Tuchman
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves. -- Ron Paul
It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%. -- Bernie Sanders
I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality. -- Jean Lapierre
I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us. -- Jesse Ventura
Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection. -- Andrew Horning
Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us. -- Thomas Sowell
Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus. -- Frederic Bastiat
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality. -- Stewart Udall
Our government is a gift from God, who calls us to be good stewards of it. -- John Shimkus
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. -- Thomas Jefferson
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves. -- Walter E. Williams
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WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner. -- Evgeny Morozov
Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. -- Jonathan Mayhew
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For a government of any party, and for every one of us, even one suicide is worrisome. -- Narendra Modi
I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries. -- Madonna Ciccone
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. -- Maynard James Keenan
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. -- William Weld
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. -- Louis D. Brandeis
All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened. -- James Cook
The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that -- Patricia Schroeder
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. -- Clarence Thomas
If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government. -- Sheldon Richman
Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government. -- John William Draper
Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.' -- Andy Borowitz
We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government. -- Jim Borgman
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. -- Jethro Tull
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. -- Al Sharpton
It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love. -- Shane Claiborne
We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it. -- Vin Weber
...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government. -- Lyn Nofziger
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation. -- Barbara Jordan
Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent. -- Marco Rubio
Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. -- Harry Browne
Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us. -- Rick Scott
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration. -- Lou Barletta
If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed. -- Wayne LaPierre
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. -- Ignacio Chapela
Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' -- Harry Browne
If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one. -- Bashar al-Assad
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. -- Ronald Reagan
What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government. -- Rose Wilder Lane
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks. -- Ronald Reagan
[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want. -- John Stossel
My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights. -- Andrea Suarez Paz
If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us. -- John Conyers
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens. -- Tom Vilsack
We really don't get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do. -- Jeffrey Tucker
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth. -- Sydney Schanberg
I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something. -- Jim Walton
The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think. -- Willie Parker
Numerous US. Government documents exist which indicate that these objects are real and have been involved with observing Earth for several decades. -- Steven M. Greer
In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors. -- Kalle Lasn
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens. -- Tom Vilsack
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government. -- Cal Thomas
I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return. -- Pier Luigi Bersani
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies. -- Ron Paul
Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. -- Steve Womack
History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake. -- Michelle Malkin
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. -- Richard King
It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans. -- Mitt Romney
In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself? -- Richard M. Nixon
Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world. -- Oliver D. Crisp
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened. -- Peter Schiff
[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days. -- Glenn Greenwald
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us -- Barack Obama
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us. -- Ronald Reagan
Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East. -- Bill Gates

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