Quotes About Government

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

Every country has the government it deserves.

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.