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Conventional wisdom holds that the public disproportionately blames Republicans for government shutdowns. The disproportionate election of Republicans to the U.S. Senate following the Republican-led shutdown of 2013 should have put that canard to rest.

If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.

I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it pleases.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.

The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front.

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.

We need to ensure that veterans are in charge of their health care and not the government.

The Veterans Health Administration's socialized style of medicine, where the government is in charge of the hospitals and managing our veterans' health care, simply does not work.

The Veterans Health Administration is a perfect case study of how government should stay out of patient care altogether.

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.

It's federal jurisdiction, so the federal government can approve pipelines.

Some may remember that, in 2010, I publicly broke ranks with my colleagues from the Quebec City area who were pushing our government to subsidize a new sports amphitheater in the city. They had seized on this popular project to... What else? Buy votes.

Unlike the U.S., Iran has no problems with low-voter turnout in elections; the last time, the government got the support of 110 per cent of the population.

BSP does not believe in organizing violent protest. It's a disciplined party and follows democratic process to oppose anti-people policies of government.

The Congress-led UPA government is not releasing development funds and criticizing my government for not taking adequate steps for development. This shows that Congress is only playing politics for electoral gains and is not serious about development of the state.

BJP and RSS leaders used to attack my government over the construction of Dalit memorials and statues, including of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, in Lucknow and Noida.

I feel the UPA government has realized that it is not coming back to power.

Our government, keeping aspirations of the Brahmin community in mind, will construct a statue of Parshuram grander than the one promised by the SP.

The Patriotic Act allows the American government to snoop around anybody's business at any time. Nobody has privacy anymore. Everybody can hack into anybody's system and find out everything about that person's life because it's all on a computer.

I wouldn't go to America if I thought Americans were representative of their government.