“The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead – everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.”
— Bruce Jackson
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“As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.”
— Lucy Powell
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“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”
— Benito Mussolini
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“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”
— Sydney J. Harris
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“If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.”
— Loni Anderson
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“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
— Voltaire
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“I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.”
— Herman Cain
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“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.”
— Lucy Powell
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