Jimmy Gomez Quotes

We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.

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

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another. Talk about Paleolithic and Neolithic.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

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.

Charles Miller cannot bring down my government.

I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States.

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

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

What is government itself but the great reflection of human nature.

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

He who is the most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power is as eager after for the prerogatives of government.

You are afraid of the one, I, of the few.... You are apprehensive of monarchy, I, of aristocracy.

Each age must … contend anew with the question of power and accountability.

If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

Are the governors such exceptionally gifted men as to enable them … to represent the masses and act in the interests of all men better than all men would be able to act for themselves?

The people in this country have always been afraid of power. Now, maybe the powerful are becoming a little afraid of the people.

The collapse of a closed society does not always lead to an open society.

You need a head of state--with continuity. Sometimes this is more important than political power.