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I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

~Billy Strayhorn

Topics: Dawn Everybody Everything Fall Government Halfway Happen Heads Love Meet Should Think Would I Think

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I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

~Bing Gordon

Topics: Captain Government High High School Life Never Newspaper Picked Played Ran School Sports Student Whole

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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.

~Binyavanga Wainaina

Topics: Africa Apartheid Arrived Average Because Began Black Government Had Here His Immediately Influence Live More Over Person Place Say South South Africa Supposed Than Understand White Wrong

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But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.

~Birch Bayh

Topics: About Against Babies Federal Federal Government Funds Government Indiana Kindergarten Lunch Out People Programs Same School Unborn Vote Worried

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Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.

~Bjorn Lomborg

Topics: Alternative Any Because Billions Carbon Change Climate Climate Change Cost Dollars Energy Even Every Fuels Going Government Halt Happen Huge Hundreds Major Much Ready Slack Slap Soon Take Taxes Technologies Time Up Us Were Which Would

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Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.

~Blake Farenthold

Topics: American American People Census Congress Coverage Data Decisions Economy Federal Federal Reserve Government Health Health Insurance Influences Insurance Look Made Main Main Street Mention Nation Our People Release Reserve State Street Trust Unemployment Wall Wall Street Who

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I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you're 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government.

~Blake Farenthold

Topics: Change Change The World Come Could Fast Government One-Half One-Third Realization Vigor World You Youthful

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As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

~Blake Farenthold

Topics: Always Efficient Fairer Government Looking Make More Smaller Ways

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It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.

~Blake Farenthold

Topics: Agencies Congress Constitutional Duty Entire Eye Government Job Keep Other Our Workings

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In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.

~Blake Farenthold

Topics: Cut Cutting Government Huge Increase Like Liked Lot More Programs See Variety Which Would

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