134 Quotes filtered by government
The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan
Category: Art of Government
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H L Mencken
Category: Democracy
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
Chris Patten
Category: Democracy
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov
Category: Corruption & Sleaze, Democracy
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
Category: Art of Government
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least
Robert Byrne
Category: Democracy
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
John Hume
Category: Northern Ireland
Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman 23/11/1905
Category: Art of Government
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan
Category: Civil Service, Taxation, What is Government
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter
Category: Democracy
Now is not the time for sound-bites. I can feel the hand of history on my shoulder.
Tony Blair
On signing the Anglo Irish Agreement
Category: Northern Ireland
Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.
Robert Peel
Category: Art of Government, Public Spending, Taxation
Always present, never there
Denis Thatcher
On being a Prime Ministerial consort
Category: First Ladies/Husbands
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
Margaret Thatcher 1989
Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing
