Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

A good government can no more exist without propaganda than propaganda can exist without a good government.

[U. S. Senator] John Logan [Republican, IL] is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the [Electoral College] Commission.

My mind is appalled at the thought of a political party having control of all the details that go to make up the sum total of our lives. Think of it for an instant, that the party in power shall have all authority to dictate the kind of books that shall be used in our schools and universities, government officials editing, printing, and circulating our literature, histories, magazines and press, to say nothing of the thousand and one activities of life that a people engage in, in a civilized society.

I don’t think you’d call the President political.

Government stimulates the democrat party.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the Labour Party. Long may it continue.

My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

You'd know if I was the de-facto leader of the Democratic Party, because you'd go down to Walgreen's and buy a pack of blunts.

If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn't much matter who controls it, because it can't do you much harm.