Conditions Quote by Gerald R. Ford

Lots of people can manage. That's not the question. It's this: Can we reimagine? Knowing how government works is not the same as getting…

— Maya Wiley

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society,…

— Thomas Jefferson

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with…

— Bill Gates

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

— Bernard Berenson

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided…

— Jimmy Carter

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

— Olympia Snowe

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It…

— Lord Acton

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered,…

— Lord Acton

I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do…

— Gerald R. Ford

Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of…

— H. L. Mencken

Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to…

— George F. Kennan