Governmental Transformation Quotes

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted ... must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones.

There has been this slightly naive and perhaps arrogant view that technology can completely reinvent the political system and the way that government and politics works, which is ridiculous.

I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution.

I'm not going to leave Canada, I'm going to fix it.

Most of the purposes for which governments formerly existed no longer remain.