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"I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things like a balanced budget amendment, things like read the bills for goodness sakes, things like that maybe Congress should only pass legislation that they apply to themselves as well."
"The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government."
"If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct."
"It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers."
"The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action."
"[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up."
"Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers."
"What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion."
"The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy."
"A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls."
"War is like government, a matter of tact."
"He is almost a statesman. He lies well."
"I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries."
"The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government."
"The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification."
"A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others."
"No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances."
"Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government."
"For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence."
"Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone."
