Government Quotes

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under

Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all -- inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all

We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector

I think the best possible social program is a job

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself

A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth

Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive

Information is the currency of democracy

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship
George Frost Kennan

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech
Anthony M. Kennedy

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, "How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?
Henry Alfred Kissinger

If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
Edward Irving Koch

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity
Irving Kristol

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it







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