Quotes About Government

Our government has betrayed us," said his father. "In your opinion. So what? In America, when the Republicans won the last election, the Democrats didn't riot!

They have no tsar in America—no emperor or king of any kind. The army can't just shoot anyone they like. The people rule the country!" She

Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them. Carla

Democracy is a terrible way to run a country, isn't it?" she said.

Este es nuestro país, y debemos tomar el control de él, tal y como han hecho los bolcheviques en Rusia

Nothing is too ridiculous for modern politics.

got elected by promising law and order. The blatant hypocrisy of it all makes us kind of furious.

He wanted to work in politics, like his parents, and make his country a better place for people such as the Aberowen coal miners. For that he needed political meetings where people could speak their minds, and newspapers that could attack the government, and pubs where men could have arguments without looking over their shoulders to see who was listening. Fascism

annoyed about this. "But the Lords exist to scrutinize the decisions of the Commons, and to curb their excesses.

The first thing Hitler did was take over the press and make it subservient to the government. Lenin did the same." Jasper had drunk a few glasses of wine, and as a result he was a shade more candid. "America is free because it has disrespectful newspapers and television shows to expose and shame presidents who fuck the Constitution up the ass." He raised his glass. "Here's to the free press. Here's to disrespect. And God bless America.

El tono de un gobierno lo establecían quienes ocupaban sus puestos más altos, y Bak no estaba sino imitando el estilo del líder supremo, que hacía gala de la terca superioridad de un fanático religioso.

Carla had never before realized how much she had been protected by politicians, newspapermen, and lawyers. Without them, she saw now, the government could do anything it liked, even kill people. Who

Supongo que me pregunto si la política podría separarnos.

Lenin ha trasladado su gobierno de Petrogrado a Moscú

Se trata de pragmatismo político, nada más.

Because in the end the taxpayers of every country will pay for the war—but the politician who tells them that will never win another election.

We have a democratically elected government," he said. "Why can't people let them get on with the job?" "Our government has betrayed us," said his father. "In your opinion. So what? In America, when the Republicans won the last election, the Democrats didn't riot!

The first thing Hitler did was take over the press and make it subservient to the government. Lenin did the same.

When there is fighting in the streets, they can claim that public order has broken down, and drastic measures are needed to restore the rule of law.

peaceful men and women whose only crime is to disagree with the government. Does this sound fantastic to you, unlikely, something that could never happen? Well, they used exactly those tactics in Germany—and it worked.

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state