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When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
Milton Friedman
Government
Good
Freedom
Active
Good Intentions
Tries
Cost
Morality
Pursuit
Come
Economy
Inefficiency
Motivation
Referee
Loss
Legislate
Lack
Intentions
Interests
Should
Rearrange
Help
Special
Special Interests
Player
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
Government
Democracy
People
Has-Been
Above
Bosses
Invisible
Empire
For The People
Employers
Got
Been
Up
Hands
Which
Forms
Interests
Special
Special Interests
Designed
Set
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama
World
Chasing
Country
Become
Greed
Wild
Paper
Run
Could
Come
Goods
Prosperous
Most
Built
Making
Sell
Wall
Wall Street
Just
Rewarding
Far
Interests
Gambling
Producing
Special
Special Interests
Letting
Street
Things
Profits
The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
People
Problem
Politicians
Run
For The People
California
Making
Stop
Being
Moves
Anymore
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Interests
Special
Special Interests
Now
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Day
Home
Purpose
Never
Journalism
Him
Reader
Permit
Ultimate
Inform
Interests
Special
Special Interests
Each
Each Day
Letter
Bring
Serving
We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.
Hillary Clinton
Greed
Down
Powerful
Knock
Forces
Interests
Special
Barriers
Special Interests
What we should all argue for is the use of freedom rather than having a monetary system with regulation domination that is run by a cartel and the special interests - that is the kind of system we have today.
Ron Paul
Today
Freedom
System
Kind
Run
Rather
Having
Argue
Domination
Than
Interests
Should
Use
Regulation
Special
Special Interests
Monetary
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
Al Gore
First
Congress
Virtually
Unless
Proposal
Powerful
Most
Permission
Passing
Affected
Get
Reforms
Any
Incapable
Interests
Special
Who
Special Interests
There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
Bernie Sanders
Education
Service
Government
Public Education
Every
Virtually
Security
Wealthy
Postal
Postal Service
Powerful
Performs
Very
Privatize
Want
Whether
Public
Social
Interests
Special
Who
Special Interests
Social Security
Function
Now
Medicare
We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.
Chris Christie
Win
Collective
National
Pay
Out
Price
Over
National Interest
Interest
Interests
Special
Special Interests
We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.
Elizabeth Diller
Work
Architecture
Arrogant
Collaborators
Kind
Voices
Budgets
Deadlines
Became
Doing
Were
Really
Interests
Hard
Special
Special Interests
Started
Humbled
When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.
Henry F. Ashurst
People
Remember
Voting
Between
For The People
Stick
Always
Forget
Interests
Choose
Special
Special Interests
The Federal Communications Commission needs to listen and serve the American people, not special interests.
Jared Polis
Needs
People
Federal
American
Commission
Listen
American People
Communications
Interests
Special
Special Interests
Serve
I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.
Jay Inslee
Result
Care
Will
Country
Young
This Administration
Administration
About
More
Attempted
Mercury
Contamination
Because
Blood
Sellout
America
Children
Experiencing
Young Children
Which
Interests
Special
Special Interests
As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.
John Harwood
Finance
Election
Dismayed
Embrace
Reluctant
Alternative
Been
Campaigns
American
Influence
Interests
Elections
Special
Special Interests
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.
John Sununu
Politics
Great
Mysteries
Point
Loophole
Becomes
Precise
Subsidy
Tax
Which
Interests
Incentive
Special
Deduction
Special Interests
People don't have any confidence in Jefferson City. There's incredible anger in the political establishment, and one of the reasons is special interests dominate the Capitol in our state.
Josh Hawley
Confidence
Anger
People
Political
Incredible
State
Our
City
Dominate
Any
Establishment
Interests
Capitol
Special
Reasons
Special Interests
Jefferson
On the question of preserving public lands, Trump replies that our elected officials have spent too long rewarding 'special interests,' by which I assume he doesn't mean petroleum companies and the Bundy family.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Family
Long
Assume
Too
Preserving
Our
Spent
He
Question
Trump
Officials
Rewarding
Which
Public
Mean
Elected
Elected Officials
Interests
Lands
Public Lands
Special
Companies
Special Interests
Petroleum
Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see a need for change.
Luis Gutierrez
Day
Game
Change
Blame
Every Day
Every
Way
Immigrant
See
Like
Because
Lots
Interests
Special
Special Interests
Play
Things
Need
I promised to carry on Jeff Session's legacy of fighting for the conservative values we believe in. I promised to help pass the Trump agenda and serve the people's interest, not the special interests. And I promised to help Donald Trump drain the swamp in Washington.
Luther Strange
People
Conservative
Values
Fighting
Believe
Conservative Values
Promised
Carry
Pass
Trump
Legacy
Donald
Donald Trump
Interest
Swamp
Agenda
Interests
Help
Special
Jeff
Special Interests
Washington
Serve
Session
Drain
People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
Marcy Kaptur
Hope
Government
Trust
People
Losing
Believe
Cares
Has-Been
Rapidly
About
Longer
Been
Them
Interests
Special
Special Interests
Captured
Right
Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.
Mark McKinnon
Own
Out
Easy
Over
Days
Town
Message
Halls
How
Opponents
Truly
Get
May
Interests
Special
Figured
Special Interests
Disrupt
The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.
Matt Letscher
Good
Law
Weapons
Through
Allowed
Ban
Influence
Interests
Special
Lapse
Assault
Special Interests
Necessary
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
Nancy Pelosi
Build
Down
Believe
Top
Out
Jobs
Must
Economy
Protect
Democrats
Middle
Create
Interests
Special
Special Interests
By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.
Raghuram Rajan
Capitalism
Competition
Opportunity
Free
Harmful
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
Economic
Economic Growth
Democratic
Interest
Public
Interests
Public Interest
Transparency
Special
Special Interests
Expression
Growth
In Ohio, we must put fairness to people and their families first, ahead of powerful special interests.
Richard Cordray
People
First
Must
Put
Powerful
Fairness
Families
Ohio
Interests
Special
Special Interests
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