Mike Pence Quotes

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

For the last 25 years we have lived with a playful, unreasoning absolutism that found fulfillment in empty appearances and a vain craving for status which the nation indulged for too long…. Absolutist government was responsible for our failure to produce statesmen, and instead only bureaucrats and lackeys.

The carelessness and negligence of the governments of the world, which wholly intent upon the care of aggrandizing themselves, at the same time neglect the happiness of the people and with it their own peace and security.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.

Reading Shakespeare we see that power can be poisonous. In the case of Bush and Cheney testosterone can be poisonous.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

Men in authority tend to abuse it – not all men, but many.

Can we wonder that all has gone ill with us when our love of office survives in our very ruin?

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

The foundation of all government is the trust reposed by the people in their governors. At present that confidence is entirely extinguished. Complaints are universal and all the complaints fall upon the Prince .… The nation sees that the Prince did not make proper use of the power given to him. Those persons who almost brought down the state are still in office; they and their allies are well received by the Prince, some continue in the same improper manner as in the days of the earlier anarchy.

Every person in this country is suffering because of bad governance.

The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of all ages, makes it the height of folly to intrust any set of men with power which is not under every possible control; perpetual strides are made after more as long as there is any part withheld.

No state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

basically, the more power politicians have, the hornier they get

Democracy has generally failed in Africa because to much power, too often, was concentrated in the hands of too few.

More power than any good man should have, and more power than any other kind of man ought to have.