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The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

~Gail Collins

Topics: Bills College Colleges Cut Debt Dollars Drives Easy Found Governments Loan Me Nuts Order Pay Politically Possible Public Sign State State Governments Student Support Taxpayer Tens Tens Of Thousands Themselves Thing Thousands Universities Up Whole

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I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.

~Gary Locke

Topics: Around China Concern Governments Intentions Mark People Question Question Mark Think World I Think

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There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.

~Gavin Andresen

Topics: Across Adapt Always Bitcoin Border Controlling Currency Done Existing Flows Governments Huge Lot Personally Systems Tax Think Thought Threat Ways Will

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The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Also Every Good Good Government Government Governments Including Just Lies Media Operate Organisations Other Part Public Responsibility System Themselves

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All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Because Despite Distance Facing Fair Fair Trade Farming Governments Growing Help Housing Innovation Justice Learning Most Over Pressing Problems Reduction Social Society Some Tackling Today Trade Urban Waste World

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It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Behave Big Governments How Matters More Than

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Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Biases Compass Contain Cynicism Favour Governments Had Intrigue Lost Love May Moral Moral Compass Most Once Plenty Powerful Protect Rich Themselves Whatever Who

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Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Achieved Advice Best Better Come Crave Decisions Each Even Fewer Governments Knowledge Mistakes More Possible Pound Reliable Results Scientific Should Spent Want

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Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Accept Benefit Billions Child Crime Cutting Development Find Governments Hard Hardware Innovation Invest Just Just As Much Might Much New Still Such Things Systematic Things

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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Topics: Acted Anything Governments History Learned Never Principles

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