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You have to support the government, not to me personally; I do not want anyone cultivating loyalty to me. I don't like that.

Quotes by Rodrigo Duterte

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

Quotes by Rodrigo Rato

When Xi Jinping came to power, there were a series of hints that market-based capitalism would be allowed to move forward under his leadership. At the first real threat, they've fallen over themselves to impose government control.

Quotes by Roger Altman

When the federal government gets around to cleaning up their lists, I am sure we'll take another look at the Lowey amendment. But until then, this effort will continue to have bipartisan opposition.

Quotes by Rodney Frelinghuysen

Federal support for Morristown National Historic Park and the inclusion of additional lands present a unique opportunity for our government to express its commitment to preserving our past. Failing to do so may allow these historically important lands to go unprotected.

Quotes by Rodney Frelinghuysen

Our nation is grounded on the rule of law, and the public must be assured that government officials administer the law fairly.

Quotes by Rod Rosenstein

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

Quotes by Rod Stewart

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.

Quotes by Rod Blagojevich

The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.

Quotes by Rod Lurie

The ability of the press to print their stories without the government trying to get them to betray their sources is as essential to a free press as the ink it is printed with. Otherwise, who will hold accountable those who hold power over us?

Quotes by Rod Lurie

As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.

Quotes by Robin Hobb

The Chinese government still would like to see U.S. Internet companies explore the Chinese market, providing they are willing to abide by Chinese law. I think companies like Facebook should think about the Chinese market.

Quotes by Robin Li

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Quotes by Robin Chase

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

Quotes by Robin Hayes

An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.

Quotes by Robert Zoellick

When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

Quotes by Robert Zubrin

The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA.

Quotes by Robert Zubrin

The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.

Quotes by Robert Zubrin

I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government.

Quotes by Robert Zubrin

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

Quotes by Robert Taft

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Quotes by Robert Teeter

While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

Quotes by Robert Teeter

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

Quotes by Robert Toombs

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

Quotes by Robert Toombs

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

Quotes by Robert Toombs

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Quotes by Robert Toombs

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

Quotes by Robert Scheer

The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case.

Quotes by Robert Shapiro

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

Quotes by Robert Reich

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

Quotes by Robert Reich

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Quotes by Robert Reich

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

Quotes by Robert Purvis

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

Quotes by Robert Novak

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Quotes by Robert Orben

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

Quotes by Robert Peel

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

Quotes by Robert McChesney

When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

Quotes by Robert McChesney

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

Quotes by Robert McChesney

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Quotes by Robert Metcalfe

Markets do not run better when manufacturing shifts to China largely because of the actions of its government. Nor do they become more efficient when Chinese companies are given special privileges in global markets, while American companies must struggle to compete with unfairly traded goods.

Quotes by Robert Lighthizer

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

Quotes by Robert Kocharian

Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.

Quotes by Robert Kurson

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Quotes by Robert Jenkins

Democracy is about institutions: it's about having things like schools and judiciary and the Ford Foundation, or 'The Nation' magazine - you need progressive institutions, you know what I mean? Those are important institutions to make sure that the government functions.

Quotes by Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure.

Quotes by Robert J. Shiller

All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government can impose a lump-sum tax - the same amount for everyone regardless of their income or expenditures - because it would fall heaviest on those with less income, and it would grind the poor, who might be unable to pay it at all.

Quotes by Robert J. Shiller

Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.

Quotes by Robert J. Waldinger

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Quotes by Robert Jackson

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

Quotes by Robert Jackson

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

Quotes by Robert Hurt

I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.

Quotes by Robert Hurt

I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.

Quotes by Robert J. Bentley

Alabama is better than to depend on gambling to fund its government.

Quotes by Robert J. Bentley

To think that we have to depend on some of the most dependent people in our population to fund our government when corporations won't even pay their fair share.

Quotes by Robert J. Bentley

I was opposed to the government telling me how to practice medicine when I was a doctor.

Quotes by Robert J. Bentley

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.

Quotes by Robert Higgs

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

Quotes by Robert Half

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

Quotes by Robert Fisk

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

Quotes by Robert Duncan

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

Quotes by Robert E. Lee

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.

Quotes by Robert E. Lee

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

Quotes by Robert D. Kaplan

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

Quotes by Robert Dale Owen

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Absolutely, federal health care options in Congress should mirror those offered in the private sector. If these options are not available in the private sector, then folks working for the federal government should not have them either.

Quotes by Rob Woodall

My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

Quotes by Rob Lowe

I do think voters are ready for a change in Olympia and after 28 years of one party rule, they are ready to put a new team on the field and bring a new approach to state government.

Quotes by Rob McKenna

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

Quotes by Rob Portman

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

Quotes by Rob Portman

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

Quotes by Rob Portman

I hate rules. I hate government intervention. Just live and let live, man.

Quotes by Rob Ford

We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country - not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen to our way.

Quotes by Ro Khanna

We've been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth.

Quotes by Ro Khanna

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Quotes by Ringo Starr

Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure - not driving the vehicles or the industry - fits.

Quotes by Rick Tumlinson

Government paved the on-ramp to space. Now, the vehicles taking us up to the space highway are being built by citizens, leveraging off government-catalyzed technologies and needs.

Quotes by Rick Tumlinson

We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail for others to follow. Of course we should spend much more on science - and yes, use robots to do that science when it makes sense.

Quotes by Rick Tumlinson

We go as humans into space to expand the domain of humanity and life - not robots. And as we do, we will get more science because when you are living somewhere, you obviously learn more about it. NASA and the government must first get out of the way and then support us as we open the frontier.

Quotes by Rick Tumlinson

I find that America is moving toward a certain type of government that everybody else is moving away from, and I find that very upsetting to me.

Quotes by Rickey Medlocke

The government is promoting bad behavior.

Quotes by Rick Santelli

We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.

Quotes by Rick Santelli

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

Quotes by Rick Santelli

It seems to me that any reason for people getting more active in running or taking part in politics and government I think is just terrific.

Quotes by Rick Santelli

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

Quotes by Rick Santorum

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

Quotes by Rick Santorum

If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don't understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise.

Quotes by Rick Santorum

But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights.

Quotes by Rick Santorum

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

Quotes by Rick Santorum

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person.

Quotes by Rick Santorum

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.

Quotes by Rick Santorum

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

Quotes by Rick Santorum

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