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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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We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. – Andrew Jackson

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Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force. – Sheikh Hasina

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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in. – Eliot Spitzer

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President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case – and most Americans would agree with him on this – then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people? – Tony Campolo

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The half is greater than the whole. – Hesiod

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