Government Quotes

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Ralph Nade

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Jack Anderson

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle, Politics

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Dame Edith Sitwell