List of Famous Government Quotes in English with Images

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It’s the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

- Government Quotes by Chester Bowles Download or Share

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

- Government Quotes by Bob Wells Download or Share

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

- Government Quotes by Bertrand Russell Download or Share

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

- H. L. Mencken Quotes Download or Share

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

I don't make jokes.  I just watch the government and report the facts.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.