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The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

Quote by Michael Oxley about politics, risk, stores

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

Quote by Thomas Paine about science, man

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one.

Quote by Thomas Paine about society, state

That government is best which governs least.

Quote by Thomas Paine about guvernement

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Quote by Thomas Paine about guvernement, common sense, security, interest, society

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Quote by Thomas Paine about nation, war

I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in...

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about love, help, country, rightness, contentment

Indeed, the federal government allocates about $185 billion in programs and services based on population figures provided by the Census Bureau.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about guvernement

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about guvernement

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

Quote by Sarah Jessica Parker about opinion, family, things, people

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about people, wealth, use

I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

Quote by George Pataki about haven, fight

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

Quote by George Pataki about thinking, state

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in...

Quote by George Pataki about moral, children, activity

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

Quote by George Pataki about guvernement, people

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Quote by Alexandra Paul about people, habits, change

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Quote by Ron Paul about americans, peace, affair, life

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Quote by Ron Paul about guvernement

Once we roared like lions for liberty, now we bleat like sheep for security, the solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about liberty, security, god, man

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, man