Quotes About Politics

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: "Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

Government is not show business.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

Based on every statement I've heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.