Governmental Reform Quotes

It was not revolution as men are prone to say. It was a popular expansion of governmental powers beyond all constitutional grants; and nearly all men everywhere hope the President may succeed.

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

Parliamentary representatives of the Communist Party shall not introduce or support reform measures.

New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are not the breeding ground for true change, but rather where it comes home to roost.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

The laws were framed by certain well-meaning visionaries who, building republics in the air, have tried to reach political perfection on the assumption that humanity is perfect. So we have had philosophers instead of leaders, philanthropy instead of legislation, dialectic instead of tactics, and sophists instead of soldiers.

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

I'm confident that Senate Republicans will put up a very strong and valiant effort to continue doing what we're united around.

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan harbor incredible promise for America once they forge an effective partnership.

The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.

All human constitutions are subject to corruption and must perish unless they are timely renewed and reduced to their first principles.

If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

In my opinion, serving the common good is the true purpose of politics and is also the perspective through which our community should consider constitutional reform.

Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.

I'm not really a political person but I'm not the biggest fan of Trump. I have my thoughts on him. I'm not a fan of his policies, the things he says, the things he's brought to the table.

I think what I'm trying to do, reform-wise, is completely consistent with conservative philosophy. It may not be consistent with some so-called conservatives who live in Washington and make their living like I used to.

The government is what you've got. Politics is what you want.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

I am not for separatism from the United States. My motto is justice but not independence from or revolution against the United States.