Ashes Quote by Margaret Halsey

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

— Allan H. Meltzer

The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions,…

— Ralph Nader

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage…

— H. L. Mencken

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns.…

— Edward Abbey

“Government — or an administration — isn’t really the sum of its parts like people think, because all of those parts are competing for…

— Craig A. Falconer

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social…

— Tibor Kalman

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

— Alex Gibney

“The people are committed to ruinous policies, all without noticing. They have neither the experience nor the time to study all these laws and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Governments are not representative.

— Noam Chomsky

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

— Tony Abbott

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”

— Giuseppe Prezzolini

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

— Noam Chomsky