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Quotedb: The Quotations Database

government

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"Deleted by French Censor"

— James Gordon Bennett

US Newspaper owner/editor Used to fill empty space in his papers during WWI when news was lacking

392

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"The confusion of a staff member is measured by the length of his memos."

— New York Times

Jan. 20, 1981

156

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"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."

— Ambrose Bierce

277

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"Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge."

— Clarence Darrow

remarking during the 1932 presidential campaign.

428

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"How can you govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese?"

— Charles de Gaulle

746

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"Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!"

— William Howard Taft

US President - referring to his defeat in the 1912 presidential election.

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"Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."

— Harry S. Truman

62

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"I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it."

— Anonymous

Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989

123

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"So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes..."

— Dave Barry

"Sweating Out Taxes"

587

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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

— Oscar Wilde
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