Government Understanding Quotes

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

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill—little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

I want to raise up the next generation of young people who are going to run this community. I need for them to understand government and how it works.

You have to understand government and you have to understand how hard it is.

The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.