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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

~George Pataki

Topics: Accepts Government Longer People Responsibility Take Themselves Then

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There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

~George Pataki

Topics: Activity Adult Awful Before Between Children Civilians Engage Government Homes Innocent Moral Places Seeking Terrorists Those Using Who Worship Would

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I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

~George Pataki

Topics: Been Continue Energy Federal Federal Government Fight Going Government Make More Push Required Secure Steps Taken Think I Think

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I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years.

~George Pataki

Topics: After Away Couple Dependent Entitlement Expand Federal Federal Government Going Government Just Many Money Offering People So Many People Taken Think Years You

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I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.

~George Pataki

Topics: American American Dream Because Become Benefits Better Changed Dependency Dream Economic Federal Federal Government Good Good People Government Had Interest Job Knew Made Part People State State Government Take Trapped Wanted Were Who Work

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Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce.

~George R. Roberts

Topics: Also Assistance Counseling Crucial Dependence Earn Employees Government Instruction Literacy Mainstream Move Necessary Need Pay Rates Receive Recidivism Reducing Services Skills Taxes Training Wages Workforce

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Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.

~George Soros

Topics: Assets Because Bonds Chinese Dollar Government Increasingly Lot More Own Real Reserves U.s. Government Will World

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We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.

~George Takei

Topics: American American Citizens American Government Both Camp Camps Citizens Government Here Incorrect Internment Japanese Our States Term United United States Were

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Those Tea Party people are crazy. I mean, they're lunatics. They close down the government, throw people out of their jobs - hundreds of thousands of people - and they say that they're doing it ultimately in the interest of creating jobs.

~George Takei

Topics: Close Crazy Creating Doing Down Government Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Interest Jobs Lunatics Mean Out Party People Say Tea Tea Party They Say Those Thousands Thousands Of People Throw Ultimately

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I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.

~George Tenet

Topics: About Awake Been Better Could Deserve Done Entire Everything Families Government Lie Night Said Still Stop Thinking Us You Your

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