"But it's the role of the state to concentrate on defense, justice and things like that, " he adds.
In Britain, whose economy is already relatively deregulated, spending cuts will help reduce the role of the state.
The simplest measure of the economic role of the state is the share of national income spent by government.
Both films look hard at crime and the role of the state and society in dealing with crime with and poverty.
Much of what he said concerned his plans to reduce the role of the state in the economy and encourage private enterprise.
Simplifying the role of the state makes sense, which is why virtually every other nation in the developed world has taken that step.
In that, the news is following society as much as leading it: as the role of the state shrinks, so the private sector matters more.
Just after the Genoa summit, he told a foreign-ministry audience that it was only at first sight that globalisation reduced the role of the state.
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But readers who are seeking answers to the perennially difficult questions about the proper role of the state in economic affairs will have to look elsewhere.
Such international agreements set out a platform that links together the issues of cultural diversity, peace and development, and the role of the state in fostering pluralism.
He implemented a radical programme of free-market reforms, removing subsidies, privatising state-owned companies and reducing the role of the state in almost all spheres of the economy.
As well as economic changes, political change was also inevitable with Europe needing reform of labour markets, pensions, welfare, public services the role of the state, he said.
The significance of the new working groups, which cover public services, economic competitiveness, security, the environment and energy, the role of the state and foreign policy, is twofold.
The modern French and American polities may have evolved quite differently, notably where the role of the state is concerned, but both emerged as highly codified, anti-clerical, secular republics.
And attempts to reform the pension and health care system, to reduce the role of the state and introduce more private contributions, have run into fierce opposition from unions.
First is more liberalisation, continuing the good work of the past 15 years, opening India's markets even wider to competition and reducing the role of the state in the economy.
Apart from foreign policy (which matters to some Brazilians but not to the mass of voters), the differences between the two main candidates are sharpest over the role of the state in the economy.
For ECB chief Mario Draghi (and the Italian president Mario Monti), it means deeper, faster structural reforms to free up labour markets, deregulate service sector industries and generally rein back the role of the state.
His contribution to the education debate was less on the role of the state and more on "the way in which the ethos of a school and the quality of teaching could make or mar a child".
The role of the state in defining strategy, purposes and priorities of policy for culture and the measure of public understanding of the value of culture depend on a general conceptualizing of the cultural sector and cultural policies.
The reason that Britain's public finances do not face a pensions time-bomb is that, since the early 1980s, the Tories have been reducing the role of the state in pension provision and increasing that of the private sector.
"These clauses will cover the key areas of the bill, including the role of the secretary of state, clinical commissioning groups, the NHS Commissioning Board, the role of Monitor, foundation trusts, Health and Wellbeing Boards, and Healthwatch, " he said.
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said the severity of the economic downturn - and the need to make huge savings - might well force politicians to look much more fundamentally at the role of the state and the nature of wealth distribution.
In its latest letter, signed by the co-convener of its church and society committee, Dr Norman Hamilton, it calls for "a much needed debate across all sections of our community on the role of the state in shaping a wide range of public and private relationships".
Lula agrees that the expanded role of the state should be temporary.
They take the side of life and compassion in the abortion debate, respect the role of state legislatures and shun the role of unelected judges in the gay marriage debate, and support strict constructionist judicial appointees who respect the letter of the constitution, not the winds of popularity.
The Lib Dems' Lords health spokeswoman, Baroness Williams, also told peers she still had concerns regarding the "ambiguous and unclear" role of the secretary of state under the reforms.
Yet these transactions are tricky partly because of cultural differences and partly because of the role of the Chinese state.
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