Quotes About Government

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.

We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

In houses and in villages throughout the country, the smoke from indoor cooking contains carbon monoxide, black carbon, and other pollutants, creating pervasive and severe health problems. In response, the government launched a "blue flame revolution" to deliver cylinders of propane—derived from oil or natural gas—to eighty million rural households for cooking.

The apogee of Progressive reforms came with the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Wilson noted in his 1913 book, The New Freedom, "If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of government. I do not expect to see monopoly restrain itself. If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Madison sostuvo que las Constituciones debían diseñarse de modo que «debe hacerse que la ambición contrarreste a la ambición».

It is the way the state and society interact and control each other that determines the capacity of our state, the policies of our government, and our resilience, prosperity, security, and ultimately, liberty.

Thomas Hobbes saw things in the 1640s, as the English Civil War was raging, when he argued that people should "submit their Wills" to an all-powerful state, a Leviathan, which would then provide security and prosperity.