#states

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in. ↗

— James Buchan

#always #charge #democracies #estates #extend

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#disposition #improve #preserve #standard #statesman

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#civil #civil war #faith #going #his

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#believe #campaign #candidate #done #down

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States. ↗

— George W. Bush

#does #environment #expand #government #job

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live. ↗

— George W. Bush

#enact #end #ending #inhumane #laws

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom. ↗

— George W. Bush

#assassins #fail #freedom #intimidated #iraqi

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#democracies #deserving #differences #different #form

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#ashamed #borrow #coast #colleagues #forced

Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you. ↗

— Drew Carey

#judges #most #nevada #nobody #states