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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S Truman

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold McMillan

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cosy up to power: We're supposed to be the check and balance on government [God help us all then!]
Amy Goodman

Protecting national security is the Government's top priority.
Tony McNulty

It's a contradiction in terms, you can be open or you can have government.
John Nettleton

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
Robert Nozick

I am not going to oppose every cut the government comes up with
Ed Miliband

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy Carter

The chancellor's failure to give Britain's taxpayers value for money will be the terrible legacy of this government.
Oliver Letwin

Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.
Giuseppe Mazzini

We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionist. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.
Michael Crichton

Congress should recognise a government established under its auspices: there is no government in the rebel states, save the authority of Congress.
Henry Davis

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Sir Thomas More

I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.
Roy Barnes

A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch 'Big Brother'.
Bill Maher

I am concerned about a society that has demonstrably lost confidence in its institutions, in the government, in the press, in the church, in the military - as well as in business.
George Cabot

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

Have you ever noticed how we only win the World Cup under a Labour government?
Harold Wilson

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry Barlow

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P J O'Rourke

I condemn this completely irresponsible act by the government of the DPRK [on nuclear testing]
Tony Blair

The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S Truman

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.
Brian Schweitzer

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfil its obligations.
Martin Gross

If the government spends money in the regions of the UK it is called subsidy. But if it pours it down the gullet of the cities and counties in south-east England it is called essential support of the infrastructure.
John Forsyth

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.
Ronald Reagan

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
William O Douglas

The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed - until the pips squeak. (Speech at Cambridge, 10 Dec 1918)
Sir Eric Geddes

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labour and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
Bob Etheridge

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
Michael Bloomberg

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
Abraham Lincoln

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
Franklin Pierce

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
Robert Jackson

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I F Stone

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Every country has the government it deserves.
Joseph De Maistre

Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
James Madison

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan

We have 500000 reservists in America who would rise in arms against your government
Arthur Zimmermann

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips

The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Cavalry, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
Abbott E Kittredge

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom
Steve Forbes

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.
Dennis Kucinich



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