Quotes About Government

I've fought very hard against populism throughout my political career. I'm very happy that Greece now has a moderate, results-oriented, non-populist government.

Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don't think that religion and politics go together. When you see political decisions colored by religion, decisions that affect us all... I thought: 'I do not want to go back to medieval times.'

The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.

The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.

I never intended to become an opposition political leader. Perhaps the government wants to raise me up into one.

If I have an idea, I can actualize it through our political leaders.

Netanyahu needs to leave Israel's political life.

The political parties have lost their loyalties.

The Government of India should take all political parties into confidence before arriving at an agreement with Pakistan.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

Had there not been these safety valves of political parties and elections, we may very well have had no way to change except forceful overthrow of government.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

Political parties usually accept funding from large industrialists and are then obliged to bow down to the demands of these individuals. When the government is funded by people's money, it will work for the people.

India has a law. The political parties or the religious heads have no right to control that law.

I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of political parties.

There is no merit in our political parties.

When I was put up as a candidate for this, I was a political person. But after becoming the president, I become non-political, a-political, because president does not then belong to any political party.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

I am not against Hezbollah as a political party, but it should not be the cause of the destruction of Lebanon.

I don't want a political party in my government that interferes in Arab countries against other Arab countries.

Oh my God, don't ever start a political party. It's exhausting.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.