Mark Leibovich Quotes

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

This town [Washington DC] can only operate successfully on myth.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Presidents have molded and been molded by all that happens here [Washington DC].

Washington: A city obsessed with the present.

It is a general principle that all governments must be understood to contain within themselves the materials for their own preservation …

I am going to make Washington as irrelevant to your lives as possible

The only accountability-free zone in America: Washington DC.

I think that my general feeling about the United States is that democracy works, and I've believed that my whole life, and my experience as a businessperson for 30 years was if you ignore the sound and fury, American democracy works if you give it enough time.

I guess I was always in awe at the amount of energy that surrounds Washington, D.C. My experience in coming up before was that it was a very, very busy place.

Washington, D.C., is not a subtle city. Unlike the capitals of other once-great powers which, many hundreds of years old, present a more seamless meshing of monumental memory and daily life, D.C. is constructed to shout, 'Here I am! I am powerful!' to the world.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.

The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC.

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay.

Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.