Quotes About Politics

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

All governments are lying cocksuckers.