A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. Thomas Francis Meagher
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. Eliot Spitzer
Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion. Stafford Cripps
I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out. Eliot Spitzer
My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. Winfield Scott Hancock
Aggression is simply another name for government. Benjamin Tucker
For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government. Eliot Spitzer
I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates. Eliot Spitzer
We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way. Eliot Spitzer
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. Eliot Spitzer
The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this. Eliot Spitzer
You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government. Lawrence Summers
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable. Jim DeMint
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. George Grenville
I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level. J. C. Watts
I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master. David Rockefeller
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. John Updike
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. John Updike
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it. Mitch McConnell
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. Bob Woodward