Quotes About Politics

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

Most of the federal government could be shut down.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.