Government

Best Quotes and speeches on Government

1. A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon — it won’t work and you can’t fire it.
   ― George S. Patton
2. A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.
   ― Benjamin Disraeli
3. A friend in power is a friend lost.
   ― Henry Brooks Adams
4. A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
   ― Barry Goldwater
5. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
   ― Dean Acheson
6. A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that’s why we can’t get anything done in the morning: We’re government workers.
   ― Jay Leno
7. After a life time in public office, self – censorship becomes not only automatic but a part of one’s personality.
   ― John Kenneth Galbraith
8. Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
   ― Will Rogers
9. Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
   ― Elmer Davis
10. Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
    ― Charles Frankel
11. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
12. Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
    ― Herbert Hoove
13. Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
    ― Richard Lamm
14. Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees.
    ― Boris Marshalov
15. Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
    ― Felix G. Rohatyn
17. Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
    ― Alan Coren
18. Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
    ― James Russell Lowell
19. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think.
    ― Anonymous
20. Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
    ― Jorge Luis Borges