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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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Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half. – Sandra Day OConnor

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The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours. – Mitch Daniels

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It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending. – Newt Gingrich

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. – Voltaire

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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. – Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. – Thomas Carlyle

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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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