Quotes About Government

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.

Congress didn't vote on the bills, they just wave at them as they go by.

It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.

Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.

There's nothing in common between politics and civilization.

Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

Coolidge, in those days and always, distrusted reformers.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

Americans must rise up and make all in Washington DC unemployed.

Oct 2001, NSA and the US government started adopting procedures, techniques and processes that Soviet Union and Stasi and all countries behind iron curtain were using.

forged and distributed large quantities of food ration cards to cause confusion, shortages, and resentment; sent out forged tax notices and other government directives and documents to foster disorganization and inefficiency within industry and unions … all this and much

The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? ... If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit.

Is it of any significance I wonder that the two countries of the Western Hemisphere whose governments the United States would most like to overthrow - Venezuela and Cuba -have the greatest National obsession with baseball outside of the United States?

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

The United States is not concerned with this thing called 'democracy', no matter how many times every American president uses the word each time he opens his mouth. As noted in the Introduction, since 1945 the US has attempted to overthrow more than fifty governments, most of which were democratically elected, and grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least thirty countries.

Is it any wonder that countless Americans—bearing psyches no less malleable than those of other members of the species—are only dimly conscious of the fact that they even have the right to be unequivocally opposed to a war effort and to question the government's real reasons for carrying it out, without thinking of themselves as (horror of horrors) "unpatriotic"? Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the.

Notwithstanding our boastful assertions to the world, for nearly a century, that our government was based on the consent of the people, it rests upon force, as much as any government that ever existed. - Robert E. Lee