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I want for us to be self-sustained so we can export. The government has a responsibility to have agricultural programs so people are able to grow their own food.

~George Weah

Topics: Able Agricultural Export Food Government Grow Own People Programs Responsibility Us Want

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Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

~George Will

Topics: Another Big Big Government Brain Could Creature Dinosaur Fact Government Indeed Injury Like Minute Nearly Nervous Nervous System Primitive System Tail Take

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World War II was the last government program that really worked.

~George Will

Topics: Government Government Program Last Program Really War Worked World World War World War Ii

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If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

~George Will

Topics: Around Central Country Government Hamilton Honor Industrial Jefferson Live Living Look Mighty Monument Nation Seek Strong You

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The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

~George Will

Topics: About America Continuous Government Political Skepticism Strongest Thread Tradition

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Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

~George Will

Topics: Adult Become Between Born End Freedom Government Made Making People Popular Race Role Sort Sovereignty Spontaneously Suited Them Trustworthy Upright Years

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Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

~George Will

Topics: Cannot Doing Government Hold Know Officials Parts Responsible Voters Which

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Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

~George Will

Topics: Analysis Applying Behave Behavior Choice Components Economic Government Groups How Incentives Influence Interest Obama Politics Public Seems Theory Unfamiliar Utterly

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Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

~George Will

Topics: Big Big Government Confidence Distribution Drives Enable Government Inevitably Manipulate Sophistication Them Those Upward Wealth Whose

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America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

~George Will

Topics: America Arizona Border Comprehensive Control Developed Developing Estimated First First Things Government Illegal Illegal Immigrants Immigrants Immigration Immigration Reform Insisting Nation Only Reform Refusal Sensibly Things Why

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