#govern

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#assume #democracy #form #frankly #good

Governments never learn. Only people learn. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#learn #never #only #people

But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia. ↗

— Julie Bishop

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I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#backing #call #clear #conditions #deposit

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#fact #governments #place #policies #put

My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia. ↗

— Julie Bishop

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The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package. ↗

— Julie Bishop

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The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing. ↗

— Julie Bishop

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