Quotes About Government

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.

The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.