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If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.
— Benjamin Constant
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.
— Winston Churchill
Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.
— DaShanne Stokes
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
— Thomas Jefferson
The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".
— James Alan Gardner
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
— Wang Jianlin
He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]
— John Prescott
The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that
— Patricia Schroeder
Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.
— A.E. Samaan
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
— Thomas Jefferson
Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.
— William Faulkner
The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."
— Thomas Paine
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
— Richard A. Epstein
Government should do a few things, and do them right
— George W. Bush
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
— Leonard Bernstein
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.
— Michael Moore
The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.
— Kenneth Clarke
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.
— Jethro Tull
[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
— Otto Von Bismarck
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats.
— Steven Magee
We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.
— Bryant McGill
You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.
— Richard Adams
So why was I so scared? Because crime is something relative; it's something the government defines and redefines whenever it pleases.
— Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what's not quite right is quite wrong.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
— Winston Churchill
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
— John W. Gardner
That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.
— Richard A. Epstein
No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.
— Ludwig Von Mises
I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.
— John Clare
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
— Barry Goldwater
The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.
— Michael Gove
It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)
— Joan Reardon
But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.
— Francis Fukuyama
Second, and in the same breath, constitutions seek to discipline politics and to limit government power.
— Michael S. Greve
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
— Penn Jillette
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
— P.T. Barnum
In politics you learn how to say A mean to say B, in wisdom you learn how to say A and keep saying that.
— Auliq Ice
Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
— Robert Teeter
In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
— Tony Blair
Government corruption made it possible to obtain authentic passports and visas, which were much more reliable than fake ones.
— Kenneth Eade
Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.
— Charles Bukowski
You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009) — Jesse Ventura
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009) — Jesse Ventura
The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot
— Carlos Marighella
All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.
— Christine Quinn
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.
— Harold Washington
Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.
— Anthony Sloan
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
— Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
— Thomas Jefferson
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.
— Jonah Goldberg
Yes, and you should question your government.
— Jessica Lange
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
— Christopher Hitchens
You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
— Rob McKenna
As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.
— Charlie Chaplin
With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.
— Michel Templet