Quotes About Politics

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

Governments are not representative.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.