George W. Bush Quotes
We have responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move.
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, Son of President George W. Bush, Labor Day address to union workers, Quoted in Reason, November 2003
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Almost all politicians in the first half of the 20th century argued for more government management to emulate that of businesses in the private sector. Lehman was one of the first modern politicians to advocated not emulating all of the management practices of business.
While the American people at that time generally were familiar with homosexual issues, few know much about transgender people who were generally quite discreet and had not been militant. They were politically and media wise, almost invisible. Hence the statement was very meaningful and appreciated coming from a high government official. North Carolina passed a state law making it illegal for any person to use a public bathroom reserved for a gender different from what appeared on their birth certificate, regardless of what the city, county or local community had been doing or wanted to do. Transgender men who dressed, looked, acted, and lived as men, under the law would have to use the women's toilet, which could in many situations would cause them to be attacked by others perceiving that man was attempting to use the women's rest rooms.
What makes this a noteworthy political quotation is that when he made the statement, his party had lurched to the radical right and almost no one else in the Republican party would publicly say that the Federal Government had any legitimate role that involved social services, food distribution, welfare or health care. Also the Republican Presidential candidate the day before had been discovered writing off the poorest 43 percent of the country. Heller however, was up for reelection in a state what was hit much harder than most in the Great Recession and without Federal Assistance many state residents would be in terrible circumstances and Heller would not fare well in the election if he took the then required Republican ideology. Also, Heller came from a blue collar family and had a much different outlook than most Republicans of that particular time.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. Although a liberal, Twain clearly recognized one of the fundamental shortcomings of government. This and other skepticism about government made him popular with small government conservatives as well.
He was a master of political games, deceit and showmanship himself. Despite his and other politician’s rhetoric, Malaysia has been handicapped by extensive corruption, poor education, and a religiously (Islam) dominated civilian government and a view of rights that makes the individual subservient to the society. See {631572},
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
