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"One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk."

Ron Fournier on Government

More quotes about Government

  • "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."

    Thomas Jefferson on Government

  • "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

    Winston Churchill on Government

  • "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

    Thomas Jefferson on Government

  • "Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

    George Washington on Government

  • "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one."

    Thomas Paine on Government

More quotes by Ron Fournier

  • "For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda."

  • "Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance."

  • "We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it."

  • "Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected."

  • "Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change."

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