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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost. – Barack Obama

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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. – Barack Obama

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Faith
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Barack Obama
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And thats just not what the founders intended. – Barack Obama

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Government
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Barack Obama
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. – B. R. Ambedkar

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Government

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Government

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they arent important. – James Dyson

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Government

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. – Grover Norquist

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Government

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. – Pietro Aretino

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Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates. – Samuel Wilson

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environmental

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob. – Jennifer Garner

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Marriage is the tomb of love. – Giacomo Casanova

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