Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'
The happiness of society is the end of government.
It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.