Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.
The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?
There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.
The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.
In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.
You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
Wouldn't if be nice if our government, could make things beautiful because everybody cares!
