I don't have a problem with the Centre sanctioning funds to any state. However, when this is done for narrow political considerations, it damages the federal fabric mandated by the Constitution.

If you are being held back by some unnecessary government rule or process, we will provide an easy way for you to let us know. And whenever we can take action, we will do so quickly.

If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

Similarly, gender equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own...

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.

The surest way to prevent seditions... is to take away the matter of them.

... Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recognize; whereas, after a time, not having been detected and treated at the first, it becomes easy to...

Democracy is a poor system

Conservative should tend to resist the argument that our particular crisis is a more-than-normal one, that our particular moment is a more-than-Madisonian one. Conservatism is a healthy political...

One of the {many} problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power,...

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst...

A senator once confided to me that the greatest need in Washington was the elimination of the cocktail party. He said: It consumes so much of our time that we don't have time for matters of state.

After 1688 the state began to rely more on talent and less on political appointees, and developed a powerful infrastructure to run the country.

Campaign contributions don't buy votes. What they buy is access.

The utopian, immanent, and continually frustrated goal of the modern state is to reduce the chaotic, disorderly, constantly changing social reality beneath it to something more closely resembling the...

In the general course of things, the popular views and even prejudices will direct the action of the rulers.