Government Perception Quotes

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.

'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.

The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.

Manuel Valls is popular because the others in the government are unpopular. Interior ministers are always popular because they give people the feeling that they are taking care of security, even when they are just people with tough words and a soft hand.

If you call anything “big government”, Americans will be against it reflexively.

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country.

I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.

I'm sure that we'll be received as patriots in our country, not the criminals we've been labeled in the United States.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

I think, generally, the folks from mainland China have more positive feelings about the government here in many cases than the average Americans feel about their government.

Whether it's in Jobcentres or in Whitehall, young people are constantly coming up against a narrative that portrays them as lazy and feckless, when in reality nothing could be further from the truth.

The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him

When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

For some reason, it seems that the government considers hackers who are out to line their pockets less of a threat than those who are trying to make a political point.