Government Quotes

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Every country has the government it deserves.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.