Quotes About Politics

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

The last thing the Province needs is a minority government

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

I've always been about less government.

Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.