#govern

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#brave #challenge #end #go #going

People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure. ↗

— Steve Forbes

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The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#care #cure #freedom #government #health

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#always #away #big #big government #consistent

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

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Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#american people #freedom #get #government #our

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#been #comes #does #federal #federal government