Quotes About Politics

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.

It's easier for opposition members to condemn the government at the drop of a hat if they don't understand.

Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.