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"I think in the end, you know, we're just addicted to oil. We've got to overcome that addiction, and we need some serious accountability of big oil, because big oil, like so much of big businesses, has just colonized our government, colonized the regulatory agencies so we can't impose any kind of accountability on them."
"As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true."
"It's the government's job to come in and help their citizens and guide their citizens to a brighter future and unfortunately in America that's not what's happening."
"President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Apparently, Obama's plan calls for the much quicker pillow option."
"The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore."
"If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church"
"Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials."
"In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative."
"The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them."
"In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them."
"In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts."
"The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid."
"The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things."
"The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation."
"Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government."
"The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means not owned by individuals, corporations, governments, or the community as common property. It means that ideas are available to be used by anyone who wants to."
"Obviously, we will respond to the concerns of any member of Congress. The government of Uzbekistan has been a good partner in the war on terrorism."
"I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government."
"I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government."
"I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values."
