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The president, it seems to me, stands out as the one person in our system who is in a unique position where the checks on any lack of integrity there are more important than for anyone else in the system of government.

~Charles T. Canady

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The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

~Charles Tupper

Topics: Carrying Committee Constructing Council Decision Finds Given Government Itself Judicial Law Out Position

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I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

~Charles Vest

Topics: Across Been Believe Building Clearly Coalition Congress Contrary Effectively Getting Government Interact Leader More Office Other Our Particularly Universities I Believe I Believe That

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Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

~Charles Vest

Topics: Badly Between Came Clear Door Federal Federal Government Government Highly Literally Mit Moment Partnership Productive Research Universities Very I Came

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The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

~Charles Vest

Topics: Budget Cost Federal Federal Government Government Items Longer Paid Shifting Term Them Those University Use Used

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There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

~Charles Vest

Topics: About Dollars Federal Federal Government Fund Going Government Million Million Dollars No Question Paid Period Question Sources Those Use Used Which Year

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The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

~Charles W. Pickering

Topics: Among Bodies Branches Direct Elections Exception Federal Federal Government Government House People Principle Rooted Unique Voice Without

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Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

~Charley Reese

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We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

~Charley Reese

Topics: Control Free Government Ignorant Never Our Own Policies Really Remain Will

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Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

~Charley Reese

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