I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

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

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

I think governments can’t do much.

You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

I am such a political person.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.