Constitution Quote by Laurence Tribe

I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“When in doubt, the Founding Fathers preferred that our government do nothing. We’re usually safest when it does. The scariest words someone can hear…

— Eric Bolling

“All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If…

— H.L. Mencken

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

— Ferdinand Marcos

A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become…

— Thomas Paine

It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional…

— Arthur Goldberg

The founders knew that foreign governments would try to meddle in our elections, meddle in our politics. And they did not want any foreign…

— Reince Priebus

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.

— John McCain

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most…

— Richard M. Nixon

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to…

— Ronald Reagan

[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine…

— James Madison

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

— Harry S Truman