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Government Quotes by Bill Gates

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Bill Gates talks about how government and business can work together. He says investing in the world’s poorest people is a smart way for governments to spend money, and that private money can take risks that public funds often won’t. He also notes that governments provide essential services like schools, courts and defense while facing their own limits.

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Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

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Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

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The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

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The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

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I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

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Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

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Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

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I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion…

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Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the…

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In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that…

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We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency…

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I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue…

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Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea…

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Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our…

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The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done…

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We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing…

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The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for…

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But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs…

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If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role…

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In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are…

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The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize…

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I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the…

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As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a…

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Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led…

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Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

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There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your…

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You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified…

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Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the…

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Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at…

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It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security…

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There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent…

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The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run…

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That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new…

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Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve…

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There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything…

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The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll…

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Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even…

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The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office…

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How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it.…

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Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.