#government

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. ↗

— Mike Pence

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The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. ↗

— Mike Pence

#big #big government #captain #conservative #conservative movement

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ↗

— William Penn

#govern #governed #people #think #will

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#competence #encounter #exciting #exciting thing #government

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#confirms #course #democracies #different #handicap

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate. ↗

— Fatos Nano

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But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense. ↗

— Don Nickles

#chief #collective #defense #federal #federal government

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible. ↗

— Don Nickles

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We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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