Quotes About Government

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

I wouldn't vote for Obama.

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

If one day the military comes to power, it will be through a vote.

The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.

Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.

I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I'm told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don't vote.

When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.