Boston Globe Quotes

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

I am the government.

The people who own the country ought to govern it.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

A political society cannot endure without a supreme will somewhere.

What is a government for except to dictate. If it does not dictate, then it is not a government.

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

In no form of government is there an absolute identity of interest between the people and their rulers

Politics is fate.

People won't want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain. Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

I like control.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.