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The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.

~George Osborne

Topics: Conservative Conservative Party Enough Get Government Itself Just Out Party Role Says Should State Strand Strongest Thinking Way

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Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.

~George Osborne

Topics: Democracy Government Margaret Modern Money Nature Poor Rich Thatcher Western

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I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

~George P. Shultz

Topics: About Because Business Careful Chances Government Had He High Learned Somebody Something Very Were Working Worry You

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While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.

~George Packer

Topics: Beautifully Deep Event Gold Gold Medal Government Iceberg International Medal Moved Palace Practice Providing Refugees Russians Satisfaction Skating Smiling Starving Strongest Target Team Way Were While

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The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.

~George Packer

Topics: America Amount Corporate Corporate America Disgust Federal Federal Government Government Influence Limited Occupy Occupy Wall Street Over Party Politics Real Shared Similarities Street Tea Tea Party Usual Wall Wall Street

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Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.

~George Packer

Topics: American Catalyst Decades Democracy Faith Government Himself Obama Offers Our Overcome Partisanship Restore Two Vicious Which

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The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes.

~George Packer

Topics: Acknowledging Beyond Censure Class Court Cutting Government Middle Middle Class Play Pressure Right-Wing Role Simply Taxes

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Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn't the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials?

~George Packer

Topics: Accountants Basic Be True Could Doctors Government Government Officials Happen Journalists Judges Lawyers Least Most Officials Professionals Same Secrecy Shrinks Tasks Those True Veil Who Why Without

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Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

~George Papandreou

Topics: Agencies Citizens Confidence Consequences Corruption Enterprises Government Legal Legal System Many Money Nepotism Our Pay Political Political System Public State System Taxes Undermined Unfortunately Wasting Widespread

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I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.

~George Papandreou

Topics: About Become Been Europe European European Union Government Having Heads More President Progress Rather Selected Should States Still Supporting Talk Than Union United United States Work

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