Emma Goldman Quotes

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.

Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We want schmoes in government. We want people who can't find the doorknob. Why waste productive people, as well as looting the taxpayer?

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

The question of our time is rapidly becoming can government get things done?

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

The Republicans are the party that says that government doen't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.

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

I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.

The government is a machinery manned by human beings.

I was Guy Molinari's chief of staff.

You have to understand government and you have to understand how hard it is.

I grew up outside of Washington D.C., a town in which the largest industry is government and in which almost everyone I knew was involved in creating policies which impact people across our country and around the globe.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.

Information upon points of practical politics.

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

Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.