Quotes About Politics

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

I don't know of any government leaders that are killers.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.