The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai LamaBy definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert CamusThere’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
Ruth Bader GinsburgJustice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
PlatoThe 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.
Thomas SowellNo government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas JeffersonThe CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.
John KennedyIt’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.
Jordan PetersonI am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
Fidel CastroSorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.
Fidel CastroI don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will RogersSo confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas JeffersonIt will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James MadisonWe are all the President’s men.
Henry KissingerIt has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston ChurchillA bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Harry S. TrumanI am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
Madeleine AlbrightWhen I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston ChurchillPolitically, 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.
Alice WalkerGovernment exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald ReaganDemocracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.
Bertrand RussellIn the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. EisenhowerProtecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald ReaganThere are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
Nelson MandelaFor every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund BurkeUnder a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David ThoreauIt may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George WashingtonAnger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.
Terry PratchettWe must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.
Herbert HooverBy what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
Abraham LincolnWhen they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘
Theodore RooseveltI’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.
Dan QuayleThe world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin DisraeliExperience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas JeffersonA Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.
Pope FrancisThe first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John RuskinI’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.
Neil ArmstrongI’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.
Jordan PetersonGovernment can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
Richard M. NixonIn my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
Abraham LincolnThe best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
VoltaireThere is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
Ray BradburyReal liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Alexander HamiltonOur future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Joe BidenThe second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas JeffersonWere it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas JeffersonNetscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
Bill GatesThe military can buy our diplomats some time.
Jim MattisThis country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham LincolnWhere 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.
Benjamin FranklinLoyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainFree government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
Herbert HooverI believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.
Narendra ModiI pay attention to politics and technology.
Nipsey HussleConstitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander HamiltonI’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.
Barack ObamaThose who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin FranklinThe universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
Fidel Castro