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All of us rightly regard ourselves as loyal to the Labour Party and yourself over many years. We believe however that you have not ended the uncertainty over when you intend to leave office, which is damaging the government and the party.
Wayne Davis

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago
John Adams

Our flag is a thing of beauty and inspiration if you look at it with the right perspective. The flag is beautiful... it's not the fault of the flag some of the people making decisions for our country are not. The government makes very poor decisions... OFTEN... but don't blame the flag. Try to remember what raising it at Iwo Jima meant to the surviving 27 men who lived to see it raised on Mount Suribachi. How many flag burners would burn that flag?
John A Marshall

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. (Letter to Duncan Grant)
John Maynard Keynes

The business of government is justice.
Woodrow Wilson

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy Bentham

Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism
Tony Blair

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman

My objective is to restore a sense of purpose and unity, particularly with the local government elections ahead
Sir Menzies Campbell

It is a disgrace that the Government should choose the day on which the Work and Pensions Secretary has resigned to conceal these findings
Mark Oaten

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Attlee

Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Gerald Ford

If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.
George Osborne

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

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De Beaumarchais

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Michael Moore

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.
Frank Dobson

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John Gardner

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

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

Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.
Benjamin Franklin

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

The thought that... I would say anything on the euro other than what's the government's position is absolutely barmy.
Denis MacShane

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan

I should not have made those comments on the case following your statement outlining the position of the government. [on judges being soft]
Vera Baird

Let's tell young people the best books are yet to written: the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them [a nice and positive quote!]
John Erskine

Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!]
Charles Clarke

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan

The government in Saigon is a travesty.
George W Ball

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

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
William Henry Harrison

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power
Benito Mussolini

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

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson

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

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

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
William E Gladstone

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott

That's almost enough to buy a government peerage
Peter Alliss

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
Svetlana Alliluyeva

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo Black

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles
Patrick Henry

The Govenment has tried everything to solve the problem of the coal industry - semi-starvation, imprisonment, extortion, threats, the supplication of the miner's leaders, and what is the almost omnipotence of Churchill's oratory. All have failed. There is one thing they have not tried. They haven't tried getting rid of the coal owners. For the one truth the Government has not yet learned is .... you can get coal without the coal owners, but you can't get coal without miners.
Aneurin Bevan



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