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A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

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.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.