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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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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. – William E. Gladstone

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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw

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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. – James Madison

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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance. – Barbara Jordan

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Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – thats training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. – Thomas Moore

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The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But theres no dark comedy inbox for the advertising. – Gus Van Sant

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An abridgement may be a bridge: it may help us over the water: but it keeps us from drinking. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The tongue can paint what the eye cant see. – Chinese Proverb

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