Quotes About Government

We think that when the American people make a decision together that they want something, politicians have to listen to them, and that's the process we believe in.

I don't know if I've seen in the Constitution where it says if there's an election year, then we take a break until after for us to do the business of the American people.

We need to believe in the power of the American people, not the power of the Biden Administration.

The American people are tired of the D.C. way.

The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

I am very angry, and you don't need angry politicians. You need politicians with great balance.

We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.

Any deal that's not approved by Congress won't be accepted by Congress. Not now and certainly not in the future.

Architecture is politics.

The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.

Hatred requires too many forces fully armed. None but public bodies can keep alive the sentiment.

Nothing passes unchallenged there; the Houses of Parliament hatch some twelve hundred laws every session, yet no member of Parliament has ever yet raised an objection to the system —

The bourgeois is born so; words are coins which he takes and passes without question. For a word, he will excite himself or calm down, insult or applaud. With a word, he can be brought to make a revolution and overturn a government of his own choice.

Fleury is right. Serving the State in these days is no longer serving a prince who knew how to punish and reward. The State now is /everybody/. Everybody of course cares for nobody. Serve everybody, and you serve nobody. Nobody is interested in nobody; the government clerk lives between two negations.

Customs are reflection of the people and the law is reflection of country's reason.

Passive obedience is as well known in a Government department as in the army itself; and the administrative system silences consciences, annihilates the individual, and ends (give it time enough) by fashioning a man into a vise or a thumbscrew, and he becomes part of the machinery of Government

Politics consist in giving the nation an impetus by creating an oligarchy embodying a fixed theory of government, and able to direct public affairs along a straight path, instead of allowing the country to be pulled in a thousand different directions, which is what has been happening for the last forty years in our beautiful France

Were it not for the cabarets, would not the Government be overturned every Tuesday? Happily, by Tuesday, this people is glutted, sleeps off its pleasure, is penniless, and returns to its labor, to dry bread, stimulated by a need of material procreation, which has become a habit to it.

The old man replied, gravely: "The police, my dear boy, is the most incompetent thing on this earth, and government the feeblest in all matters concerning individuals. Neither the police nor the government can read hearts.

In that there is nothing very grave or very gay; since the world was a world, governments have always found pens for sale, and never have they failed to buy them