Unstable Government Quotes

India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

When you have an autocratic regime you have no guarantee that the regime will last beyond the autocrat.

… a people which desires freedom but knows no order … a people which on one day elects its rulers, on the next begins to mistrust them and on the third condemns them; a people devoid of any spirit of fraternity or concession; a people among whom may be discovered a hundred different factions and engaged in abusing without the spirit of moderation …

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Your [the American] constitution is all sail and no anchor.

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty; that our governments are too unstable; that the public good is disregarded in the conflict of rival parties; and that measures are too often decided, not according to rules of justice, and the rights of the minor party; but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority....

The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.

You see the problem of an unstable White House from the outside and worry about it. But from the inside, it is 50 times worse.

Washington is unpredictable these days.

Experience has taught that a divided power in the state is impotent and at odds with itself.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

Taiwan isn't ruled by rule of law. Taiwan is a country of liars and fraudsters. Our politicians are full of lies. They change their position from one day to the next.

Our government is a little more chaotic than most other governments in the world.

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

A banana republic we are not.

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.