More quotations tagged with “government”
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
—P. J. O'Rourke
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.
—John F. Kennedy
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
—James Madison
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
—H. L. Mencken