Quotes About Government

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

There's never been a good government.

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

War is just one more big government program.

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.