Government Quote by George Sand

“Our country should not be asked, and should not ask of itself, to shoulder the main burden of determining the political realities in any…

— George Kennan

“I don’t like institutions that are beyond normal parliamentary scrutiny. It’s an invitation to abuse of power, no matter how noble the intentions.”

— Stieg Larsson

“When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“As politicians we ought not so much to ground our hopes on the reasonableness of the thing we ask, as on the reasonableness of…

— Thomas Paine

“This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government’s petty, silly, pointless laws they…

— Jeremy Clarkson

“We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.”

— Woodrow Wilson

“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature…

— Thomas Jefferson

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they…

— Herbert Spencer

“Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men.…

— John Adams

“One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they…

— Michel Templet

“Politics is a matter of desires and personal feelings or emotions, only parliament tries to bring reason into the state.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom,…

— Benjamin Franklin