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“Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.”

World Long Government Tools Bad Things Globalization

Author:John B. Larson

“Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.”

Use Government Social Crime Tools Patterns Punishment Severity Sociologists Social Control

Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.”

Knows States Hands Government United United States Tools British Regimes Zionist British Government

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.”

Knows Way Firsts Government Today Able Fighting Land Taxes Tools Victim Ancient Settling Farmers Hunting Tied Awkward Settling Down Barbaric Remnants Ancient Times Bandits

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Here in America, government began as a tool to assure freedom. It gradually turned into a hideously expensive political toy designed to redistribute your wealth and control most aspects of your business and private life.”

Government America Political Wealth Aspect Tools Expensive Toys Private Life

Author:Mark Skousen

“It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.”

Use Government Levels Roles Fields Tools Welfare Taxation Playing Fields Role Of Government

Author:Joe Hockey

“Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.”

Thinking Use Government Used Purpose Evil Skills Tools Determine Hammers

Book:You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

“The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.”

Children Government Poverty Truth Is Program Tools Spending Lifts Probability Decrease Government Spending

Author:Marco Rubio