Quotes About Government

The Knesset members - Jews and Arabs - don't represent the state of Israel. The government is the one that represents the state of Israel officially.

In many respects, Afghanistan represents a more difficult problem set. It does not have a number of the blessings that Iraq has in terms of the oil, gas, land of two rivers, the human capital that Iraq built up over the years, the muscle memory of a strong government - albeit one that was corrupted over time.

In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the U.S. political system seems to have been made to prevent such an occurrence.

Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.

Obama represents one-world government, a.k.a. Neocolonialism. Presidents don't change anything locally - they only deal with foreign policy.

Despite the belief of many career bureaucrats that elected political leadership works for them, our system is built on the idea that the permanent bureaucracy, such as it exists, works for the elected leadership, which in turn works for and represents the American public.

Our government works best when it represents the needs of the American people, not special interests.

Yes, fear and repression may be permanent citizens in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

There is the bipartisan pretense that the FBI is the only government agency in Washington that is above reproach. Yet, this is the agency that collaborated with Lois Lerner and the IRS in an effort to criminally prosecute opponents of Barack Obama.

I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions.

For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

The rule of law is a republic. The rule of one person is a monarchy.

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.

Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

As far as I'm concerned, when the Queen, who we all love very much, is finished with her reign then Britain should go and stop being a banana republic as it is when we have the royal family and become a real republic.