Americans feel frustrated, distanced, and disenfranchised…

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today…

— John Lynch

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

— John Lanchester

“...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

— Marianne Williamson

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

— Rick Mercer

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

— Paul Keating

Jokes apart, I, like many other, am looking for strong and stable government. I don't want any chaotic political situation where the elected government…

— Ruskin Bond

Candidates seeking the highest office in our government deserve the opportunity to be fully heard.

— Harris Faulkner

It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship.

— Alberto Fernandez

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

— Bob Riley

If I get elected, my government will promote a culture of acceptance and non-violence in the country.

— Ashraf Ghani

Pops added,you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve. And if you do, you never get the results…

— Anonymous

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond…

— George Papandreou

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

— Thomas Jefferson

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

— John Adams