People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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