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“This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.”

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Author:David Plouffe

“Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.”

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Author:Mike Lee

“The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.”

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Author:Mark Zandi

“Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.”

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Author:Chuck Todd

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

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Author:Joseph Goebbels

“All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.”

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“In the United States the government has become less important. So, it's democracy, but as each year passes it seems that the government plays less of a role in people's lives, and so they're living in whatever situation their employment imposes upon them more than they're living in a grand political system.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“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.”

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Author:Russell T Davies