Quotes About Government

People generally think of Conservatives as competent, and they need to see that competence in action in delivering the public services that matter to everyone.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be.

Dealing with politicians, that's a little different. But government doesn't change until people demand it.

I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.

Democracy demands sacrifice. Democracy demands that the rules of the game be respected just as the constitution requires.

We need someone who has the experience - and the demeanor - to be the president of the United States.

Often, when I became a consultant to a federal agency, that precipitated its demise.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

We're not a democracy.

'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim-Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It's not like he wasn't a problem. It's not like we haven't had warmongers. It's not like corporations haven't been the main influence on what we're doing around the world.

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.

My policy is I will help any policymaker who asks, whether they be a Republican or a Democrat.

The path chosen by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party is the road to 'small-c- communism' - and the important thing to understand is that they are quite happy with that choice.

If there was a Liberal Democrat government, there clearly would be women in the Liberal Democrat Cabinet.

I think one thing that Montanans all agree on, whether you're Republican or Democrat, is they want money spent appropriately.

I'm a democrat.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.