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The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Richard M. Nixon

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Barack Obama

Read my lips: no new taxes.

George H. W. Bush

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Noam Chomsky

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.

Madeleine Albright

I think governments can’t do much.

Dalai Lama

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Pope Francis

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.

Colin Powell

That government is best which governs least.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Bill Gates

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Nipsey Hussle

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

Colin Powell

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

George Orwell

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Jordan Peterson

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

Noam Chomsky

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

Colin Powell

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

George Orwell

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.

Bill Gates

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Madeleine Albright

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Theodore Roosevelt

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Dan Quayle

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.

Bill Gates

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

H. L. Mencken

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill

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.

Narendra Modi

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Thomas Sowell

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

John F. Kennedy

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Barack Obama

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

George W. Bush

I am such a political person.

Madeleine Albright

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Thomas Jefferson

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Thomas Sowell

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Madeleine Albright

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Barack Obama

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

Ronald Reagan

Every President wants to do right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry Kissinger

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

Barack Obama

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Bill Gates

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

Wayne Dyer

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

Narendra Modi

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Will Rogers

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

Barack Obama

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger