Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.

The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.

People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office.

America is greatest country; but not our government.

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

Right now there’s kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

All government is an ugly necessity.

I too am a government.

If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.

The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.

American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class. What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.