John Stuart Mill Quotes

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

Our government has become a system rather than a living expression of the popular will.

We are hiring too many people who are called politicians, and we are not holding them accountable…. You do not hire someone and not tell them what to do. Make a trip to Washington and see that they are doing what you want them to do.

If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected; in other words, that the people have less regular control over their agents, than their rights and their interests require.

I don’t want to kill the government. I just want to shrink it down to a small enough size that I can flush it down the toilet.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

If members of Iran's parliament are prevented from criticizing the judiciary, then they should close down the parliament.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.

Is the role of the prime minister to cultivate political leadership in Israel? My answer is yes.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Serving in the U.S. Congress is about much more than voting on bills. It is about taking on the corporate bullies that taint our democratic process and pushing back when the system is broken.

The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write.

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

There is an important role for a United States senator as a check and balance on the president of the United States.

Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

Congress must control their MLAs.

Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.

How can we even call this a Democracy when the House, the Senate, the White House, and now the Supreme Court are all controlled by the representatives of a minority group in America?

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.