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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Actions Best Decisions Disposal Forces Governments Light Means Military Motives Own Possible Put Used Wars

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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Controlled Element Governments Instrument Media War

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Government pensions are among the largest cost drivers for state and local governments.

~Bruce Rauner

Topics: Among Cost Drivers Government Governments Largest Local State

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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

~Carl Paladino

Topics: About Because Club Concentration Future Gonna Government Governments Had Hide Honest In The Past Lot New New York Now Open Out Past Pull Right State Witnessed York

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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

~Carl Safina

Topics: Being Better Dictators Did Early Easy Enriching Governments Hated High High School Horrible Knew Much Nothing Oil Out Really Running School Sources Terrible Us Were Who Would 1970S

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UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

~Carol Bellamy

Topics: Basic Children Ensure Exists Food Governments Need Providing Repeatedly Services Unicef Where

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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

~Carol Bellamy

Topics: Become Bound Convention Governments Implement Legally Rights Therein

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For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

~Carol Bellamy

Topics: Age Away Change Children Completion Compulsory Example For Example Governments India Keep Law Legislation Longer Passed Raising School Unicef Where Workplace Works

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In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

~Carroll Quigley

Topics: Addition Bankers Based Could Financing Go Government Governments Influence Other Over Personal Power Pressures Steer Them Ways Wished

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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

~Carroll Quigley

Topics: Advice Bankers Businessmen Century Consistently Disastrous Gave Generally Given Good Governments History Last Last Century Later Like Often People See Shall Shows The History Of

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