Omar N. Bradley Quotes

If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

Administration is the essence of government, and its quality is a prime condition of civic comfort.

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.

We need to restore our democracy to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.

The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that honor and respect human rights-together these actions spell out the increasing marginalization of the terrorists, as they have fewer and fewer places to run and hide.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate.

Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.