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“A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.”

“Democracy in Iraq will be an example that the Arab population will look to with great interest. And some Arab governments are concerned about democracy in Iraq, not because Iraq will be an aggressive state against them, but rather by the example that will be set by a successful federal democratic state in Iraq.”

Looks States Government Interest Democracy Successful Example Concerned Democratic Iraq Population Aggressive

Author:Ahmed Chalabi

“By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women to run to the Government as Substitute Husband (or Father). This gets companies to fear women, but not to respect women. The best preparation we can give women to succeed in the workplace is the preparation to overcome barriers rather than to sue: successful people don't sue, they succeed.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.”

Government Economy Successful Example Planets Weak Prosperity Shrinking Weak Government

Author:William J. Clinton

“We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.”

Needs Mean Government America President Successful Essence Being Successful Our Future Tied

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.”

“The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.”

People Government Spirit Order Successful Dangerous Witness Distress Lowest Mechanic Discontent Traveller Arrivals Triumphant Artisans

Book:Records of a Girlhood

Source: Records of a Girlhood

“The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.”

“An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.”

Matter Government Religion Perfect Successful Greater Example Importance Aids Separation Purity Alliances Coalitions Guarded Religion And Government

Author:James Madison

“The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.”

Humans Government Evil Poor Successful Doubt Subjects Institutions Tyranny Attributes Distress Supporter Iniquity

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population