“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.”
— Thomas Frank
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“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”
— Milton Friedman
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“The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.”
— Mitch Daniels
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“One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.”
— Hillary Clinton
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“A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.”
— James Madison
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“In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.”
— George Osborne
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“National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.”
— Theresa May
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“The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.”
— Paul Ryan
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“We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.”
— Julian Assange
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“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“Government stimulates the democrat party.”
— Rush Limbaugh
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