Andrew Cuomo Quotes

It is not good to have a rule of many.

I am the state.

The people who own the country ought to govern it.

In no form of government is there an absolute identity of interest between the people and their rulers

Mobutu does not think he is God.

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

Democracy passes into despotism.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

The World is governed too much.

What is a government for except to dictate. If it does not dictate, then it is not a government.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

If ... America is to become an empire, there is very little chance that it can avoid becoming a virtual dictatorship as well.

The spectacle which confronts all Europe today is a great conflict between democracy and dictatorship.

Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state..

The good government of one man is the bad government of another

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.

The director can be a dictator, but it's not wise to be. You have to choose the days to be a dictator and the days to deal with diplomacy and democracy. Every great leader should know that, even a dictator. Tyrants get overthrown.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

I am the Federal Government.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.