Quotes About Government

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

Politics is applied biology.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

Politics and football don't mix.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.