Quote by Barbara Jordan
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that gover

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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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that. – Barbara Jordan

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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community. – Barbara Jordan

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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. – Isaac Watts

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Ive been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and Ive never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And Im not sure where it comes from, but I suspect its got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive. – Alan Greenspan

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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. – Milton Friedman

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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. – Francis Bacon

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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. – Tony Blair

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I dont categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure. – Rachael Ray

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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do. – Phillips Brooks

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