Quotes About Politics

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.