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“Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.”

People Has Beens Different Government Purpose Support Policy Expenses Tribes Reservations

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.”

People Government Justice Support Military Taxes Connected Priorities Canada Medicare Justice System

Author:Peter MacKay

“So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.”

People Has Beens Made Government Today Names Results Policy Television Direct Radio Consent Behalf Government Policy Informed Consent

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.”

People Government Iran

Author:Azar Nafisi

“The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.”

People Problem Bigs Government Politics Cutting Taxes Messages Welfare Messengers Dukes Big Government Back To Work Very Popular Pocketbooks

Author:Dan Quayle

“A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.”

People Government Nations Dissent

Author:Jim Leach

“We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.”

People Self Government Desire Nations Interest Pay Attention Conflict Taxes Highest Angry Property Corruption Income Income Tax Incompetent Conflict Of Interest Albany Property Taxes

Author:Carl Paladino

“The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.”

People Body Government House Voice Principles Unique Direct Election Branches Exception Rooted Federal Government

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.”

People Knows Government Common Responsibility Involved Common Ground

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.”

People Knows Government Moral Defense Bad Things Retreat Limited Government

Author:Russell Pearce

“Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply an economic matter. In essence it is an ethical and moral question, for whoever takes the important economic decisions in society ipso facto determines the social priorities of that society.”

People Important Matter Government Social Decision Moral Economic Majors Essence Determine Priorities Decision Making Ethical Meaningless

Author:Jimmy Reid

“Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.”

People States Government Social Citizens Waste Agency Officials Contracts Bureaucrats Breach Social Contract Government Officials

Author:Bob Riley

“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.”

People Should Believe Play Government Care Roles Cases Environment Health Care Providing Federal Government

Author:Bernie Sanders

“We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.”

People Made Government Risk Taxes India Entrepreneur Competition Attractive Internals Risk-taking Tax System

Author:Manmohan Singh

“The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.”

People Want Government Acting Officials Pastor Bureaucrats Clergy Government Officials

Author:Pope Francis

“Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path.’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.”

People Ifs Men Two Government Order Asks Opinion Path Humble Be Good Every Man Diverse Governance Good Governance

Author:Pope Francis

“Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.”

People Government Function Institutions Superiors Private Sector

Book:The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

“Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.”

People Ifs Needs Sometimes Government Would Be Parent Kicks Pants Perpetual

Author:Cal Thomas

“The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.”

People World Doe Problem Government America Energy

Author:Jim Talent

“If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.”

People Ifs Enough Government Enough Time Amazing People

Author:Judy Woodruff

“The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.”

People Government Party Conspiracy Castes

Author:Lalu Prasad Yadav

“Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?”

People Government Law Courses Wish Justice Results Doubt Industry Balance Campaigns Branches Contribution Governing Lobbying Great Results Campaign Contributions

Author:Thomas Frank

“Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.”

People Government Differences Numbers Grew Spending Factors Administration Recalls Federal Government Employed Contracting Federal Spending

Author:Thomas Frank