No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

I’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.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

The FBI should not be a political body.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

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.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

We have the best government that money can buy.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

The 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.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won’t get to choose your doctor – that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That’s also not true.

In 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.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

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

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

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

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

Those 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.

People do not make wars; governments do.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I don’t follow politics much.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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.