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“The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.”

People Problem Bigs Government Politics Cutting Taxes Messages Welfare Messengers Dukes Big Government Back To Work Very Popular Pocketbooks

Author:Dan Quayle

“It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.”

“Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.”

People Want Use Government Running Opportunity Energy Cutting Huge Percent Plant Energy Use Fukushima

Author:David Suzuki

“If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.”

Ifs Way Government Cutting Waste

Author:George Osborne

“In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.”

“Any man having one drop of the seed of Cane in him Cannot hold the priesthood ... I will say it now in the name of Jesus Christ. I know it is true & they know it. The Negro cannot hold one particle of Government ... if any man mingles his seed with the seed of Cane the only way he Could get rid of it or have salvation would be to Come forward & have his head Cut off & spill his Blood upon the ground. It would also take the life of his Children.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Children Government Would Be Jesus Names Christ Cutting Blood Jesus Christ Salvation Seeds Particles Spills Priesthood

Author:Brigham Young

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.”

“But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same.”

People Knows Wells Reason Bigs Government Evil Results Democracy Cutting Misery Ambitious Greedy Democracies Have Money And Power Cutting Off Big Heads

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?”

People Way Looks Government Cutting Impossible Rough

Author:Neal Boortz

“Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?”

Government Fighting Cutting Impossible Politician Taxes Projects Vote Spending Tax Cuts

Book:The Conscience of a Conservative

Source: The Conscience of a Conservative

“If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.”

“The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.”

Matter Government Moving Used Names Cases Issues Cutting Internet Taxes Increase Clothings Sheep Fairness Typical Revenue Unwilling Expenditures Tax Increases Ploy Wolves In Sheep's Clothing

Author:Bob Barr

“In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrant's feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters.”

Long Ideas Government Running Support Cutting Feet Masters Majority Cruelty Ideology Rebellion Tyrants Long Runs Oppressed Brutality

Book:An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist

Source: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist