Kevin Spacey Quotes

I don't like government, it's just that simple.

Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

I love politics.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Democracy fascinates me.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

The product of Washington is politics. Other places produce steel.

Process is America’s most important [political] product.

The role of government is, I believe, the most potent but underappreciated cultural issue in American politics.

Parliament of Parliaments

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

When you look at every government, they're our elected officials, and you have to have some form of respect for them.

I don't think we should be undermining our democracy.

Parliament is relentless, it never stops.

From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.