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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. – Steve Allen

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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. – Steve Allen

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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. – Plato

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Its opportunity. Its opportunity, not a check from government – its opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans. – Mitt Romney

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We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. – Colin Powell

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My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, thats the greatest reward I think any government could hope for. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator. – Cheryl Hines

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Theres no point in making predictions. Its not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future. – Cristiano Ronaldo

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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. – Henry Fielding

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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. – Abu Bakr

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