Quotes About Government

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

That is how America gets her art: Contracting firms get the contract and the honor. Starving artists do the work. The government pays for sculpturing thousands of dollars, of which the sculptor gets a hundred or so.

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

In the early days of the republic, the secretary of state was the heir apparent to the president. Presidents could easily hand-pick their party's next candidate. The party caucuses formally selected the candidates, but presidents guided the process.

I am convinced that the Obama administration and Clinton Dynasty would rather hail the Communist Manifesto than the Declaration of Independence this Fourth of July. And there's more than enough proof to show how they have been slow-cooking our Founders' republic into a red-star state like China.

A functioning police state needs no police.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.