Determined Quote by Tony Abbott

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

— Matthew Lesko

What typically happens in government is the exact opposite of how things should work.

— Steve Hilton

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

— Jay Weatherill

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to…

— Molly Ivins

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

— Henry David Thoreau

The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas, on the…

— Dionysius of Halicarnassus

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public…

— George Bancroft

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

— Rob Lowe

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

— Walter Bagehot

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with…

— Bill Gates