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| Alla vill äta vid regeringens bord men ingen vill diska. | Werner Finck (1902-) |
| Att leda ett land är som att spela orgel. Man måste använda alla registren - dra ut ett, skjuta in ett annat. Det är inte som att spela blockflöjt. | Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) |
| Att regera är konsten att föra människorna till ett liv i fred och måttlig lycka. | Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) |
| Den bästa regeringen är den som gör sig själv överflödig. | Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) |
| Det finns inga gränser för de orimligheter som en regering kan få medborgarna att tro på. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Det händer att till och med en förnuftig regering faller för en demagogs svammel. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| Det är absolut inte en regerings uppgift att skänka medborgarna lycka utan det är att skapa tillfälle för dem att själva arbeta för lyckan. | William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) |
| Det är med kvickheter som med regeringsbildningar. När folk har fattat poängen finns det ingen anledning att dra historien i långbänk. | Michael Blædel |
| En god regering är som god matsmältning. Så länge den fungerar märker man knappt av den. | Erskine Caldwell |
| En regering är som en orkester. Varje enskild medlem kan inte musicera som det passar honom. | Harold Wilson |
| En regering är som ett spädbarn, en matsmältningskanal med stor aptit i ena änden och ingen ansvarskänsla i den andra. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| En regeringsförklaring är som en matsedel. Ingen kan säga vad som kommer att strykas längre fram. | Alberto Sordi (1920-) |
| En svag regering uppträder på samma grymma sätt som skeppsbrutna. I ett förtvivlat läge offras den svagaste i båten. | Matsuo Hideki |
| Grundvalen för den fria regeringen är misstron. Tack vare den kan vi i författningen ta med garantiföreskrifter som binder dem åt vilka vi är förpliktade att anförtro makten. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Ingen regering kan vara säker någon längre tid utan en respektingivande opposition. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Konsten att regera är att ta så mycket pengar som möjligt från en klass medborgare och ge dem till en annan. | François de Voltaire |
| Låt folket tro att det regerar, så låter det sig regeras. | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| Makten korrumperar - det är ett mänskligt fenomen som ingalunda är partipolitiskt bundet. En regering, av vilket slag eller vilken färg den vara må, som alltför länge har haft makten borde för sin egen hygiens skull träda tillbaka en tid och tänka efter. | Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) |
| Regeringar håller sitt ord endast när de är tvungna till det eller när det gynnar dem. | Napoleon |
| Regeringar lär sig aldrig något. Endast folketlär sig. | Milton Friedman (1912-) |
| Regeringar som ger allt de har är benägna att ta allt man har. | Marcel Achard (1899-1974) |
| Regeringar är segel, folket är vinden, staten är ett skepp, tiden är havet. | Ludwig Börne (1786-1837) |
| Regeringar är som människor. De misstänker ofta andra för det de själva gör. | Joseph Alsop (1910-) |
| Skulle det trots allt inte vara bättre om regeringen avskedade folket och valde ett annat? (efter upproret i Berlin den 17 juni 1953, då regeringen förklarade att arbetarna hade "förspillt regeringens förtroende") | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| Till och med den dummaste regering inser till sist att den inte kan handla emot hela folket. | Jacek Kuron |
| Vid placeringen kring regeringsbordet bör man se till att man såvitt möjligt alltid sätter en vild och en tam elefant bredvid varandra. | Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) |
| Vilken regering är den bästa? Den som lär oss att regera oss själva. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Även för regeringar gäller principen att förtroende är svårt att vinna men lätt att mista. | Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928) |
| En regering har pr. definition ingen samvittighed. Nogle gange har den en politik, men aldrig mere end det. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Ethvert land har den regering, det fortjener. | Joseph Marie de Maistre (1753-1821) |
| Jeg finder aldrig på sjove historier. Jeg studerer bare regeringen og rapporterer fakta. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The faculty of self-deception, essential requisite for anyone wanting to guide others | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957) |
| Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today, and longed for them tomorrow | Abba Eban (1915-2002) |
| Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Passion governs, and she never governs wisely. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. | Bernard Shaw (1940-) |
| Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| [There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense. | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense." | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| New taxes should be a last resort, not an option | Christopher Myers |
| One does not fight corruption by fighting corruption. | Daniel Kaufmann |
| Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to spew out paper." | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| We are proud because from the beginning of this nation man can walk upright no matter who he is or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend or his enemy... And he does not fear that, because that enemy may be in a position of great power... that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot here without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the Habeas Corpus Act and we respect it. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first the most basic expression of Americanism." | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule | Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
| So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Government is a kind of legalized pillage | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold men's hearts by hopes when it cannot by satisfaction | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. | Friedrich August Hayek |
| Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle. | Gen Maxwell D. Taylor |
| I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The art of government is the organization of idolatry | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Americans, endowed by their solicitous government with an ever-expanding array of entitlements, now have the whiny mentality that an entitlement culture breeds. | George F. Will (1941-) |
| One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force. | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of his execution; so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode f | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't. | Gerhard Kocher |
| Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't. | Gerhard Kocher |
| I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. | Grover Glenn Norquist |
| Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people | Henry Clay (1777-1852) |
| That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature - a type nowhere at present existing | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money. | Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) |
| The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| No government could survive without champagne. In the throat of our diplomatic people [it] is like oil in the wheels of an engine. | Joseph Dargent |
| If someone dares question the Administration’s leadership or integrity, they drape a flag over the latest mess and cry “treason!”. Ironically and unfortunately, this bears a striking resemblance to the way I clean my house. | Jules Carlysle (1970-) |
| I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| While the people off fighting foreign tyrants generally get the praise of the American public, those who fight American tyrants mostly just get funny looks from their fellow Americans. | Larken Rose |
| 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 (1924-) |
| A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification | Malcolm Wallop (1933-) |
| When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| Official aid is more likely to retard development than to promote it. | Peter Bauer |
| Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are. | Phil Gramm (1942-) |
| It is easier for a republican form of government to be applauded than realized | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of 'monopoly in the means of production.' | Robert Anton Wilson (1932-) |
| Democracy is moving forward, sometimes a little bit slowly, but it is moving forward. This is an obvious step, it is an obligation and it is necessary. | Romano Prodi |
| In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| It's a pattern. Prices go up, consumers get angry, politicians investigate, nothing changes. | Sean Comey |
| Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government's mistakes force states to raise their taxes, it not only robs Peter to pay Paul, but it hurts hard-working families and it undermines our economy's strength. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| Our government has a simple task: recognize our nation’s real problems, and address them in a manner that reflects the priorities of the American people. It sounds simple, but it’s not happening today, and I know you’re as frustrated with Washington as I am | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. | Stephen Colbert (1964-) |
| Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- 'citizen of the world' -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary. | Strobe Talbott |
| Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| The most basic function of government is to provide a framework of law and order, within which the people are free to choose. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who can’t say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites, but so far nobody has pushed away from the table mainly because the president doesn’t seem to mean what he says. | Tony Snow |
| My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle | Will Durant (1885-1981) |
| Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was selfish license | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |