Quotes About Government

No politician has a 50-year horizon.

As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans.

I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.

The point is, is that when you elect a politician, it has nothing to do with their personality. Politicians perform a function, a role in government. And the role of city government is not one that serves the people, unless the people make them do what the people want.

It is my right and my duty as a politician to speak about the problems in our country.

I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

We have to save ourselves from ourselves. We have to minimize the effect our own politicians can have on our society. We have to get some rules from the outside.

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the Government to account.

I guess you can get politicians out of politics, but you can't get politics out of them.

When borrowers anticipate that politicians might cancel their loans, they stop paying.