Quotes About Politics

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Women have no government.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.