Quotes About Government

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back!

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat, don't sell drugs. The government hates competition.