The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

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...

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

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 am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

It takes very little to govern good people.

When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychology. All those poor devils he'll hide away in institutions, and just bring out the lively young...

One glance at any government budget anywhere in the world tells the story-the money is always in place, already allocated, the motive everywhere is fear, the more immediate the fear, the higher the...

When we think of readapting mankind to a world of unity and co-operation, we have to consider that practically all the educational machinery on earth, is still in the hands of God-selling or...

He came away with an exasperated sense of failure. He denounced parliamentary government root and branch that night. Parliament was doomed. The fact that it had not listened to Rud was only one little...

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments...

...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make...

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

When L.A.'s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them.