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Government Quotes by Sandra Day O'Connor
- The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting…
- Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries…
- It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over…
- The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is…
- The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
- You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea…
- We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
- Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
- For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help…
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida