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Quotes About Politics

Influence is not government.
~ George Washington
Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.
~ Rush Limbaugh
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
~ James Cook
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.
~ Graham Greene
Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?
~ Harry Browne
Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.
~ Robert Simonds
Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.
~ James Bovard
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
~ Polly Toynbee
Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.
~ Orson Scott Card, Heartfire
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
~ Dean William R. Inge
I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
~ Jesse Ventura
You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
~ Marco Rubio
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
~ Eliot Spitzer
Good government is good politics.
~ Richard J. Daley
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.
~ Ronald Reagan
Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.
~ L. Neil Smith
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
~ Lyn Nofziger
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
~ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.
~ William Greider
If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church
~ Bertrand Russell
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.
~ Joel Miller
Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.
~ Ed Crane