Quotes About Government

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

There are no free lunches on welfare.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

oh, what a democracy MY PRIME MINISTER IS CORRUPT

If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?

General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying is a lie.

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.

New Zealand has the cheapest government money can buy.

One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they fail to consider whether or not they should.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

Unity in faith is theocracy unity in politics is fascism.