We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
Newt Gingrich
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire. -
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. -
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. -
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. -
The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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