Anne Rice Quotes

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

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

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

We carry out our work under the leadership of the government.

When I embarked in the government, it was with a determination to intermeddle not at all with the legislature.

If the Congress fails then American democracy is dysfunctional.

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

All government is an ugly necessity.

I too am a government.

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

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

I am the Federal Government.

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Exploitation and government are two inseparable expressions of what is called politics.

Government is not an exact science.

The history of America is the history of the presidency.

What is politics but business?

Most people have a healthy disrespect for politicians.

From time to time we must remind ourselves that the President has a role in the legislative process.

The Constitution was made chiefly because of the demands of Commerce.

Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.