Government Quotes

Cabinet Quotes


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But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn’t embarrass a Cabinet member.
Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

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Feudalism Quotes

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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
Alexander Haig

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Feudal Quotes

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The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

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Civic Quotes


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Voting is a civic sacrament.
Theodore Hesburgh
Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

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Cabinet Quotes


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There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.
We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that’s what the bureaucracy understands.
Brian Mulroney

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Civic Quotes


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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man’s expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

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President Clinton

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.
I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

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Good government

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there’s some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

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