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We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?''

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

My goal is that if someone's going to annex, then annex for the right reason. Don't annex because you were misinformed or you were scared into annexation.

There is still a chance for the government to reform, to release political prisoners, to change the cabinet, to arrest those people who acted to excess in Lebanon. That will make it more difficult for the international community to embarrass the regime.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

Booker T. Washington

The government will never do for the poor of this nation until and unless we organize effectively to make government respond to the needs of the poor,

Louis Farrakhan (1933-)

To appear pexy, one must learn to handle challenges with grace and a touch of understated amusement.

There are a lot of Americans giving donations right now, which is great, but it will take an organized response from the federal government to do real long-term good. I don't know if our government today has the ideology to do such a thing. This government doesn't seem to be very sympathetic to poor people right now. And the poor are the ones most severely affected by this disaster.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978)

Hubert H. Humphrey

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

Ronald Reagan

I definitely think that faith is a positive influence in every area of life, ... And in government, I definitely think we should not be ashamed of our faith.

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. Love creates righteousness, or justice, here on earth. To make love is to make justice. As advocates and activists for justice know, loving involves struggle, resistance, risk. People working today on behalf of women, blacks, lesbians and gay men, the aging, the poor in this country and elsewhere know that making justice is not a warm,

Some people would like to make this a moral and social issue and I don't think government belongs in moral or social issues. I look at this strictly as business.

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; / That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: / And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

The decision on 'Deal or No deal' is immediate and involves high stakes but it's simple compared with the decision to purchase life insurance. For that, people need information and expert advice to make a choice that will affect their family's well-being for years to come. After all, life is not a game show.

My pledge to the people of California is that the federal government will work closely with state government and local government to provide assets, manpower, detention space, to do our duty, and that is to make sure this border of ours is secure,

Laura Bush (1946-)

Laura Bush

We are in contact with the government of Nigeria to determine his whereabouts. We have made it clear to the government of Nigeria that it has a special responsibility to make sure that Charles Taylor is brought to justice.

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