Jair Bolsonaro Quotes

Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

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

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.

I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20 years of military government, a great deal of debt, and a great deal of expense.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won. In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected. Sometimes the type of person from the old machine, who is everything but an appealing figure, happens to win an election. But democracy applies to everyone, not just the noble and the clever.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

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

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.