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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

~Gail Collins

Topics: About Actually Almost Alone Anything Business Colorful Generally Go Going Good Government Keep Know Long Long Run Mean Miss Never Old Over People Really Run Running Scandals Sex While Who You

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If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

~Gail Collins

Topics: Against Appreciate Crime Crowded Dogs Government House Keeps Live Makes Massage Next Nobody Order Other Parlor People Perceive Place Protects Puts See Sidewalk Sure Thing You Your

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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.

~Gail Collins

Topics: Because Big Big Enough Care Democrats Education Enough Favor Government Government Spending Health Health Care Health Care Reform Hispanic Like Office Outreach Party Programs Reform Republicans Spending Take Voters

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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

~Gail Collins

Topics: Being Choices Crazy Demand Driven Feel Free Get Government Involved Limiting Most Obsessed People Perfectly Personal Scope Who Women

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Actually, the notion of what is acceptable for a moral government to do seems to have eroded in some ways since 9-11. Not to get too political here, but countries, including our own, seem to have accepted what was once almost unimaginable - condoning torture, for example, and even criminalizing peaceful protest.

~Gail Simone

Topics: Acceptable Accepted Actually Almost Countries Eroded Even Example For Example Get Government Here Including Moral Notion Once Our Own Peaceful Political Protest Seem Seems Since Some Too Torture Unimaginable Ways

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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

~Gale Norton

Topics: Environment Government Only Protect Regulation Seemed Way Why

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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

~Gallagher

Topics: Fire Government Overthrow Wanna Want

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Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

~Garet Garrett

Topics: Government Now People Responsibility Were

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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

~Garet Garrett

Topics: Astonish Currency Did Doing Fictitious Gold Government Great Need Own Paper Paying Price Purpose Spectacle Value Want World

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If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

~Garet Garrett

Topics: Bank Because Bonds Corporation Government Great Name Paper Piece Private States Take United United States Were Words Would

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