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The people’s right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.

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J. K. Galbraith

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn’t know itself.

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Everett Dirksen

The U.S. Senate – an old scow which doesn’t move very fast but never sinks.

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Lewis H. Lapham

The supply of government exceeds the demand.

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Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

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Hubert Humphrey

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

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John F. Kennedy

When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

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Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.

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Winston Churchill

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.

government, rule