Distinction Quote by Thomas Paine

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.

— Henry Rollins

The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

— Joe Wilson

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

— Thomas Paine

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

— Breyten Breytenbach

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

— Ronald Reagan

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

— Molly Ivins

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

— Jonathan Mayhew

It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.

— Geoff Mulgan

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

— Barack Obama