Quotes about Government
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
- Winston Churchill
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
- Will Rogers
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.
- Al Gore
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.
- Conan O'Brien
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
- Ronald Reagan
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
- Ayn Rand
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
- Will Rogers
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...
- Helen Keller
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
- Roger Williams
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
- Frank Herbert