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"Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy."
"If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced."
"In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment."
"It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies."
"To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government."
"In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue."
"Public instruction should be the first object of government."
"I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ."
"A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root."
"The art of government is not to let me grow stale."
"I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice."
"A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed."
"We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend."
"Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will."
"Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights."
"American taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill for the overwhelming costs of amnesty. Under current law, once 11 million illegal immigrants receive probationary status, they will immediately have access to federal benefits like Social Security and Obamacare coverage. If we thought we had a problem with government spending before, just wait."
"A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness."
"When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving."
"For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President."
"Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile."
