Government Quotes - Page 22

In 14 months, my government, the Philippine 2 government, has filed 11 cases. I posted bail eight times, I've been arrested twice in five weeks, detained once, and the only thing I've done, my only crime is to be a journalist, to speak truth to power.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundre... -Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

The perverse gift of the Chinese coronavirus is that it has given Americans an up close and personal look at the horrors of big government - and, by extension, socialism.

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

I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Everything government touches turns to crap.... -Ringo Starr

Everything government touches turns to crap.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the cou... -Tom Stoppard

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

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