government ideology Quotes

Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders.

I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology.

America and the world are paying a high price for devotion to the extreme anti-government ideology embraced by Donald Trump and his Republican party.

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.

We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.