Famous Quotes About government

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

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

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

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

Democracy is an abuse of 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.

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.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

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