Quotes About Government

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.