Quotes about Government
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
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
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.
— Conan O'Brien
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
— Ronald Reagan
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
— Ayn Rand