Government Quote by Michel Templet

“A woefully corrupt and incompetent government is only a problem to the taxpayer.”

— Lee Broad

“It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by anyone well…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

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

— Woodrow Wilson

“That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works”

— Barack Obama

“The best minds are not in government.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Government is about principles. And the principle is, never act on principle.’ ‘Politicians must be allowed to panic. They need activity. It is their…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“The people are difficult to govern because of the (excessive) agency of their superiors (in governing them).”

— Lao Tzu

“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all…

— Jasper Fforde

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

— Ronald Reagan

“I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better”

— William Howard Taft