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Let's tell young people the best books are yet to written: the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them [a nice and positive quote!]
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I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
View quotes by Katherine Graham

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
View quotes by Aristotle

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
View quotes by Grover Cleveland

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
View quotes by Barbara Tuchman

Whatever the true cause of the government's baffling support for Sir Ian Blair, the public can have no confidence while he is in charge that the Met can be replied upon to keep them safe. That is why, once again, he must go.
View quotes by Melanie Phillips

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
View quotes by John Gardner

Every single member of this Labour government, if you go back 20 years, has made the most extraordinary 180 degree turn.
View quotes by Brian Feeney

Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!]
View quotes by Charles Clarke

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
View quotes by Milton Friedman

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
View quotes by Jeremy Bentham

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

View quotes by Ronald Reagan

I am concerned about a society that has demonstrably lost confidence in its institutions, in the government, in the press, in the church, in the military - as well as in business.
View quotes by George Cabot

During this campaign the chancellor and the prime minister will stand up and say it [the government] hasn't increased taxes, and that's just not true for business.
View quotes by Digby Jones

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cosy up to power: We're supposed to be the check and balance on government [God help us all then!]
View quotes by Amy Goodman

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
View quotes by James Madison

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.
View quotes by Dennis Kucinich

There's nothing our rulers [Labour government] enjoy more than banging up a decent, hard-working taxpayer, especially if they're suspected of voting Tory.
View quotes by Richard Littlejohn

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.
View quotes by Vince Cable

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
View quotes by Alan Shepherd

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