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• Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

  Werner Finck

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• I was with you in the days of glory. At the head of the Government, I shall remain with you during the days of darkness. Stay by my side.

  Philippe Pétain

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• Aggression is simply another name for government.

  Benjamin Tucker

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• The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer’s government.

  Chauncey Depew

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• The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

  Cyrus Rowlett Smith

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• The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

  William Ellery Channing

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• You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

  John Kennedy Toole

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• Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe… Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.

  Yoshihiko Noda

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• We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

  Julian Assange

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• The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

  Jurgen Habermas

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• Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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• The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

  Benazir Bhutto

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• 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.

  James Hayes Shofner Cooper

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• In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

  John Reed

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• Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

  Judd Gregg

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• The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can’t afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.

  Judd Gregg

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• This is government. There is no entertainment.

  Judy Davis

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• We’re a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

  Anthony Burgess

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• That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

  Robin Hobb

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• No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

  Isabel Paterson

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