Li Shufu Quotes

I am the Federal Government.

It's our duty as leaders in Washington to keep the government running.

The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

The Presidency is the repository of the people’s power.

The government is a machinery manned by human beings.

Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

The civil service are risk averse.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

Congress is the great commanding theater of this nation, and the threshold to whatever department of office a man is qualified to enter.

Those of you who end up in public service will come to appreciate the difficulty of wielding the extraordinary power of the government effectively and fairly. Much of this power is housed in the many departments and agencies that are charged with carrying out specific functions of government. Those who do not have daily interactions with a government agency may not realize just how much influence bureaucracies wield.

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

When you get into an airplane, you expect a pilot who knows how to fly. Running a Government is also an expertise.

In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

I too am a government.

Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people; before you have a government you must have the people. Without the people there can be no government. The government must be, therefore, an expression of the will of the people.

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.