Quotes about Government
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
— Will Rogers
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
— Ronald Reagan
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
— Dan Quayle
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
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
— Pope Francis
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