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I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

If we don't know our rights, then the government can easily stop those rights ... knowing the First Amendment is vital to having a truly democratic society.

He's very good at portraying the conventional wisdom that as long as we balance the budget, everything's OK. The real question should be, what do we do to fix the size of government.

Even if the government had actual real-time data, it's two to three years old, ... School administrators need to know what is happening today and what to anticipate tomorrow, not outdated numbers from yesteryear.

We're not going to put a wall around the Capitol, ... We're going to have perimeter security. We're going to have certain streets that have been blocked and certain ones that are open. But we want a free flow of people into this Capitol with people doing tours, doing the things that people need to do in the people's house in the Congress.

Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this the People will assuredly do the rest.

I think at first it was disbelief you've got to be kidding. But now that they've seen some of the legislative support we've put together, they see that the union is willing to put up some money, that the company is, that the state stepped right up they think there's a ray of hope.

Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.

Moreover when Reagan and the President were compared on the handling of a series of issues of foreign affairs and dealing with Congress.

He's the most talented diplomat in the Iranian government. He could make a difference in the nuclear negotiations.

There's not just confusion between the U.S. definition and everybody else's definition of torture, there's profound confusion within the U.S. government.

As NASA determines what went so terribly wrong, we will be diligent in doing everything we can in the Congress to give NASA all the support it needs to make sure we press forward with scientific advances, and that nothing like this happens again,

Given the fact that anything that is really new is classified, we won't learn anything in the hearings that we don't already know. Congress is so ineffectual most of the time and so afraid, if the attorney general just sticks to his script, they won't lay a glove on him.

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.

The government is planning to promote legitimate software use among enterprises and companies.

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities. If they don't have the ability to secure our salaries and to guarantee good living conditions for the people, they either have to step aside or to ask the people what the next step must be. They cannot act alone.

Congress and the SBA appeared to be more interested in shoveling the money out than they were in actually making sure that they were helping people affected by the 911 attacks.

In the absence of a shift in market perceptions of the relative attractiveness of U. S. and foreign assets, government policies would likely have only limited effects on the trade balance.

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law and every time they make a law it's a joke.

I have not asked anybody so far to form the government but we are leading towards contacts and consultations with all the blocs in parliament.

In the short run, members of Congress will get allergic to lobbyists. They'll be nervous about taking calls and holding meetings, to say nothing of lavish trips to Scotland. Those will be out. For a period of time now, members of Congress will be concerned about even legitimate contact with the lobbying world.

I say here that the U.S. government has no right to summon Iranian officials.

Dollaryen is slightly higher, perhaps as a consequence of that, with some of the comments sounding a little bit more hopeful in the sense of them not pushing on the anti-China trade legislation that they've brought to Congress. But we'll have to see what happens when they get back (to the U.S.).

We have presented our demands to the government, it is up to them to arrest the culprits.

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Year after year, as drug prices rise much faster than inflation, more and more seniors are forced to go without much-needed medications. The millions of low-income seniors, who subsist on Social Security checks that rise no faster than inflation, can no longer afford skyrocketing drug prices. Congress must act now to provide real relief to them.

Congress has allowed the need of big corporations before the need of our children,

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Whether or not the law is passed, no one should be subjected to cruel or unusual punishment while in custody of the United States government,

These answers do not help the Senate much in reaching an informed decision about this nomination.

If you had to choose a nation that is moving fastest in cultural terms it has to be Spain. After 40 years of the limitations of a fascist government, you suddenly see a tremendous vitality. You feel it in the street.

The federal government is doing something it has never done before, ... Our 9 percent investment is going to 90 percent. That's my big news.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

When the federal government would actually save millions of dollars by forgoing the status quo and actually sending evacuees on a luxurious six-month cruise it is time to rethink how we are conducting oversight. A short-term temporary solution has turned into a long-term, grossly overpriced sweetheart deal for a cruise line.

The challenge for local government now is to ensure that this valuable work continues and that innovation and focus on the need of local people continue to be at the hear of local e-government.

I believe I can speak for the U.S. government when it comes to Mugabe. They feel he has abused his country, he has abused his people.

The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit,

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.

We knew going into this meeting that we were not going to walk away with a check from the federal government, ... a good working plan to pursue this further.

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

As western governments improve relations with Libya, they should press the government to improve its respect for human rights. Libya's cooperation in fighting terrorism should not mean carte blanche to commit abuse.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Wilderness preservation is one area of environmental progress where Congress could write a surprisingly impressive record of accomplishment in 2006. In state after state, ordinary citizens inspired by these successes are working hard to encourage Congress to complete action on other pending wilderness proposals.

Today we are only marching in protest, but if you do not stop this assault (on Muhammad) we will sacrifice our souls and our blood for the prophet. Our message today is that we will accept an official apology from the government, but if the assault continues we will burn the land under their feet.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.