Country Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

— Margaret Murray

It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was…

— Anonymous

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law…

— Henry Ford

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly…

— Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which…

— Henry David Thoreau

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret…

— Benjamin Disraeli

You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force,…

— Millicent Fenwick

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other…

— Judith Ellen Foster

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable…

— Anonymous

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's…

— John Steinbeck

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by…

— Bella Abzug