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“I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.”

Thinking Country Moments Government Difficult Support Office Commitment Obvious Saved Our Country Euro Membership Difficult Moments

Author:Lucas Papademos

“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?”

“The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always a great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government; and for this purpose, an academy, where a regular course of instruction is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations have successfully employed.”

Source: The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens

“What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.”

Trying Persons Self Seems Government Effort Roles Health Citizens Cost Essentials Eternal Obvious Harm Defense Lists Priorities Germs Facilitate Availability

Author:Keith Olbermann

“Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.”

Firsts Government Might Figures Clothes Happenings Affair Definitions Obvious Gambling Exposed Emperor Authoritarian Government

Author:Calvin Ayre

“When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.”

Thinking Government Care Political Talking Perspective Capacity Election Obvious Spending Tiny Presidential Candidates Fund Relative Fractions Presidential Candidate Political Election

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Evil is obvious only in retrospect.”

Government Evil Obvious Retrospect

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

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