Quotes About Government

The jury which informed Potter he would be drawn and quartered was not an undisciplined mob but an official body representing the interests of the Revolutionary government. Humiliation with barnyard symbolism—goose feathers or hog's dung—had regressed to archaic forms of torture.

The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax.

Notwithstanding the claims of ethologists such as Frans de Waal, 46 there is nothing corresponding to the apparatus of government – in the very broadest sense – in animals.

white-haired, walrus-mustached man is leading the country right now, but just barely. President Paul von Hindenburg is eighty-four, tottering into senility. A politician half his age is growing in popularity,

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

In a democracy, nothing is more sacred than the mandate given by the people.

The cable law. Prasar Bharati. The Broadcasting Bill. These are all overlapping things.

I'm going to be a voice for Californians who are suffering because California can't do the basics.

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

The country I most admire is Canada, the one I've served my whole life.

If the Bank of Canada does want to start getting more and more political, then it will be held to the same level of political accountability as other political entities.

We want to help Canadians be able to get a home that they can afford.

Candidates seeking the highest office in our government deserve the opportunity to be fully heard.

When people start to believe that the same administration will continue with the same policies for three or four years, they start to think about capital investment.

Crony capitalism on the left and crony capitalism on the right are still crony capitalism.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

I believe in capitalism as long as there's a strong rule of law around it.

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

The career politicians down in Washington don't want to be held accountable.

The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.