Quotes about Government

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

I've endorsed 'Medicare for All' at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

Along with Trump, there are few people, on either the right or the left, who would defend the system. The system is, everyone believes, broken: it's an insider's game; it's totally fixed; it serves itself. Trump codified this into a simple and vivid idea: the swamp.

Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third.

all authority of governments on earth originates from the Sovereignty of God alone.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.