Famous Quotes About government

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.