Government Quotes

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

Respect, Hard, Invisible

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn

Governed, Govern

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
Robert Orben

Down, Place, Taxes

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris

Democracy, Whether, System

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott

Work, Tired, Democracy

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone

Good, Home, Here

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy, Abuse, Statistics

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Larry Ellison

Money, Give, Goal

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Wilhelm Reich

Character, Powerful, Political

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Cullen Hightower

Talk, Congress, Except

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton

Danger, Class, Govern

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay

Trust, Both, Benefit

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
Kay Bailey Hutchison

Money, Long, Believed

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
Wendell Phillips

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Lewis Mumford

Real, Different, Sometimes

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
Fred Woodworth

Good, Bad, Human

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

Rather, Security, Economic

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Adrian Cronauer

Nation, Principle, Governed

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
Dirk Kempthorne

Alone, Crisis, Cannot

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten

Birth, Benefits, Expects

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
Cullen Hightower

Mistakes, Bad, Trying

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Charles de Secondat

Three, Republican, Despotic

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
Fred Woodworth

Trust, Evil, Human

The essence of good government is trust.
Kathleen Sebelius

Trust, Good, Essence

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
James Q. Wilson

Size, Federal, Succeeded

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