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Quotes About Government

The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals.
~ Cesare Beccaria
I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.
~ Wayne Swan
You have to tackle the real drivers of debt - that's mandatory spending, not discretionary.
~ Dan Crenshaw
When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis.
~ Sharad Pawar
I guess whenever I'm in the paper, it's dealing with bridges falling apart, budget problems, pension crises - and saying we have to tackle these problems.
~ Gina Raimondo
Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.
~ Piyush Goyal
I believe that if we do not prevent Medicare from going bankrupt, it will go bankrupt. And that will be bad for everybody. We have to tackle our debt crisis. We have to tackle the drivers of our debt.
~ Paul Ryan
I saw a complete lack of courage in Washington to tackle some of our biggest challenges.
~ Valerie Jarrett
This is bad for policy-making - if you cover up the problems, how can you solve them? It also corrodes public trust. Government must be much more honest about the challenges facing the country, if we are to begin to tackle them. Short-term spin must give way to proper long-term strategic thinking.
~ Dominic Grieve
By repealing the Child Poverty Act, which forced governments to take real action to tackle child poverty, this government brings a proud chapter of British history to an undignified end. In future the government will measure child poverty not by looking at whether they have any money, but by looking at their so-called 'life chances.'
~ Emily Thornberry
Redistricting reform is one of the most important issues we can tackle.
~ Nina Turner
I appreciate President Trump's commitment and invitation to play a role in strengthening State and Federal government partnerships. It's important that we discuss best practices to tackle shared challenges and priorities.
~ Mike Parson
Money's dominance over politics isn't merely one problem of many our country faces. It is the problem! It is a growing crisis that prevents us from tackling anything else.
~ Alan K. Simpson
Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.
~ Francis Maude
The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
~ Maajid Nawaz
I have been a policymaker proven in tackling some very complex social issues on the municipal level here in Boston.
~ Ayanna Pressley
The Tamil Nadu government should seek the assistance of the Centre in tackling dengue situation. The efforts taken by the state government to control dengue was inadequate.
~ Tamilisai Soundararajan
Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system.
~ Paul Singer
As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.
~ Noam Chomsky
Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.
~ Roy Barnes
Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Gov. Romney's policies would be a clear departure from the dubious tactics of the Obama administration.
~ Jeff Duncan
Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.
~ Bernie Sanders
If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.
~ Jesse Ventura