Quotes About Government

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

The first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. We Republicans came to power to change government, and government changed us.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.