Quotes About Government

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.

The integrity of our government, our Republic, fundamentally relies on the principle that no person, not even the president or the nation's chief law enforcement officer, is above our laws.

We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator. And in the end, you hope it's a benevolent one. But then you could get things done. There's no lurching; there's no bumps. That's the cornerstone of checks and balances.

This country is a republic.

The Republic is one and can't be divided: That's the Constitution! It means the Republic can't ground its action on local community criteria. Can't accept it.

I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France.

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.

The people run the country. So if people didn't want you shooting in their neighborhood, there's no authority that can tell them they have to. That's why it's called the People's Republic of China.

In a healthy republic, there is a need for figures who understand that the presidency is not the be-all and end-all of the people.

A Republic is its people.

A banana republic we are not.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

I'm a Republican.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.