Government Quote by Craig A. Falconer

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or…

— Warren G. Bennis

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up…

— Harry Browne

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever…

— Ronald Reagan

“By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by…

— Victoria Stoklasa

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the…

— Felix Frankfurter

“Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.”

— Joseph Conrad

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to…

— Molly Ivins

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

— George Santayana

“We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.”

— Ronald Reagan

Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this…

— Glenn Reynolds

“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt