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“The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.”

Ifs Knows Needs Kind Doe Government Names Meaningless Consent Nsa Consent Of The Governed

Author:Edward Snowden

“If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.”

People Ifs Hands Government Able Individual Information Policy Objects Safe Foreign Policy Nsa Government Policy Classified Information

Author:Barack Obama

“The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.”

Ifs Doe Government Desire Purpose Company Records Grew Ordinary Program Phones Addresses Gaps Nsa Examining Databases Queries

Author:Barack Obama

“When you're in government, of course, you have protection and you have people who are looking out for your wellbeing, but you can't live in a state of fear. If you do, you're not going to do your job very well and you're going to give yourself high blood pressure, which probably isn't worth it.”

People Ifs Giving Wells States Government Jobs Courses Blood Pressure Protection Worth It Wellbeing Blood Pressure High Blood Pressure

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.”

Ifs World Want Government Secret Internet Right Now Criminals Changing The World

Author:Tom Morello

“Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.”

Ifs Trying Doe Whole Bigs Government Next Politics President Numbers Talking Morning Too Much Failing Amount Higher Raised Agendas Representatives Senators Next Day Reelection

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.”

Ifs Years Government Past One Thing Taught Honor Ethics Importance Affair Handle Taught Us

Book:Speaking up

Source: Speaking up

“I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.”

People Ifs Men Country Home Government Dies Asks My Own Let Me Treated

Author:Chief Joseph

“the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.”

Ifs Whole Government Turns Quality Regard Rate Tongue Corporations Representatives Ashes Inferiors Flavor Second Rate Representative Government

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.”

Ifs Trying Reason Government Political Night Force Sports Lines Moral Morality Standards Areas Flow Entertainment Armed Forces Sports Entertainment

Author:Margaret Halsey

“If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud.”

People Ifs Two Government Fighting Mistake Responsibility Streets Crime Faults Criminals Educated Making Mistakes Fraud Inadequate Incompetent

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.”

Ifs Government Underwear Don't Change

Author:Margaret Murray

“if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.”

Ifs Want Government Can Do Achieve Program Immortality Pentagon

Author:Rachel Maddow

“If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.”

People Ifs Government Liberty Economy Return Thrive Founders

Author:Nan Hayworth

“Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.”

Ifs Enough Government Poor Example Spending Employee Offering Federal Government Assistance Reckless Pension

Author:Devin Nunes

“Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.”

People Ifs Government Asks Given Given Up

Author:Jennifer Pahlka

“Being the governor of a state is a more pivotal job in the future. I do indeed hope there's someone that says, "I'm going to go to Washington, try to get back to our constitutional roots, devolve the centralization of government back to the states." So why would you want to be up there if the action is down here in the states?”

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Author:Rick Perry

“When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.”

Ifs Way Problem Government Running Social Deals Support Security Limits Debt Spending Pilots Federal Government Social Security Medicare Medicaid Medicare And Medicaid

Author:Allen West

“If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.”

People Ifs Government Moral Obligation Moral Obligation

Author:Ron Paul

“When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they will buy other things, such as buying property. But no matter what we have, whether we have our gold coins or we have our property, if we have an authoritarian government, that is our greatest threat. So, I would like to think that there is no perfect protection, other than shrinking the size and scope and power of government, so that we can be left alone and take care of ourselves.”

“Most meteorological research is funded by the federal government. And boy, if you want to get federal funding, you better not come out and say human-induced global warming is a hoax because you stand the chance of not getting funded.”

Ifs Want Humans Government Chance Boys Research Global Warming Federal Government Funding Hoaxes

Author:William M. Gray

“If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.”

Ifs Government Cities Land Sufficient Rome Fascists Puppets Reinforcement Armistice

Author:Pietro Badoglio

“When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there?”

People Ifs Needs Government Congress Opposition

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“We can all agree that government cant solve the obesity crisis alone. Its an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.”

Ifs Want Long Government Term Effort Issues Crisis Agree Solve Long Term Cant Ongoing Obesity Public Sector Long Term Success Collaborative Effort

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win”

Ifs Art War Government Success Winning Enemy Democracy One Thing Military Succeed Worried We Will Win

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government”

Ifs Government Moral Citizens Taxes Obligation Get Away Maintaining Moral Obligation

Author:J. P. Morgan

“If you're a print shop and you are a gay man, should you be forced to print 'God Hates Fags' for the Westboro Baptist Church because they hold those signs up? Should the government - and this is really the case here - should the government force you to do that?”

Ifs Men Should Government Hate Force Church Cases Gay Shops Print Baptists Gay Men Anti Discrimination Westboro Baptist Church

Author:Rick Santorum

“I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.”

Ifs Thinking Government Rights Doors Television Host

Author:Michael Moriarty

“It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.”

People Ifs Government Style Presses Western Motive Relevant Defects Western Society

Author:William Pfaff

“It's government's job to respect and protect the rights of the individual. That vision is centrally important to the principle put forth by the Founding Fathers. If you don't believe that, you shouldn't be in Congress.”

Ifs Believe Important Government Jobs Father Individual Vision Principles Rights Protect Don't Believe Congress Founding

Author:Bill Sali

“It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.”

Ifs Should Ends Play Government Given Easy Millions Terrible Drama Tough Pounds Terrible Things Coalitions Pubs

Author:Russell T Davies

“Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.”

Ifs Firsts Government Lost History Citizens Exercise Committed Multitudes Sovereignty Roman Empire

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.”

Ifs May Government Enemy History Effects Produce Weak Assuming Appearance Ministers Council Distracted Pursued Roman Empire Correspondence Incapacity Public Enemies

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

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