Quotes About Government

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can't choose to be unaffected by it

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

Politics is social work with power.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.