A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
Lee Iacocca

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Johnny Depp

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
Woodrow Wilson

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Woodrow Wilson

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Woodrow Wilson

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Vladimir Lenin

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
Paul Harvey

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
Andy Rooney