Quotes About Government

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.