Criticism of Government Quotes

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.

Curtailment of expense could be effected only on the principle that as the government did nothing well, it might as well do nothing.

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

Nowadays, it has become a custom to criticise the BJP for everything.

Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

You don't go to some other country and bash our president.

If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.

Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?