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There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.

~Cordell Hull

Topics: Enduring Established Everywhere Governments Greater Last Long Maintained Make Peace People Responsibility Resting Sure Than Time Will

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I think governments can't do much.

~Dalai Lama

Topics: Governments Much Think I Think

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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

~Dambisa Moyo

Topics: African Aid Average Bloated Corruption Criticism Destined End Flows Form Governments Help Links Most Obvious Organizations Rampant Supporting Up

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Most governments want their citizens to be part of the financial system, to be productive citizens as a result of having access to be able to manage and move money in a seamless way. But the traditional financial services infrastructure is not designed to handle that because, predominantly, it's an expensive infrastructure.

~Dan Schulman

Topics: Able Access Because Citizens Designed Expensive Financial Financial Services Financial System Governments Handle Having Infrastructure Manage Money Most Move Part Productive Result Seamless Services System Traditional Want Way

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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: Administration Believed Good Governments Lie Look Nothing Officials Pretty Pretty Good Rule Say They Say

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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?

~Daniel Espinosa

Topics: Decisions Governments Information Live Making Our Regarding Right Understand Why World

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The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge challenges. Climate change cannot be solved by governments alone. Xenophobia, hatred, and intolerance - more business leaders have to play a role in trying to be positive leaders, civic leaders.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: Address Alone Business Business Leaders Cannot Challenges Change Civic Climate Climate Change Forces Governments Hatred Huge Individual Intolerance Leaders Lives Market More Our Our Lives Play Positive Power Private Private Sector Responsibility Role Sector Solved Trying Xenophobia

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What if people could use the Internet to create a new kind of money, one that didn't involve governments and central banks and could be used anonymously, like cash?

~Daniel Lyons

Topics: Banks Cash Central Could Create Governments Internet Involve Kind Like Money New New Kind People Use Used What If

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There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.

~Daniel Pauly

Topics: Complex End Fact Fish Fishing Free Governments In Fact Matter Need Pay Privilege Rights Scheme Should Stop Themselves Urgent

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The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.

~Dave Debronkart

Topics: About Alone Baby Bear Burden Choices Costs Decisions Effect Face False Forcing Governments Needless Particularly People Places Responsible Sad Senseless Society Surge Valuable

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