Quotes About Government

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.