Governmental Structure Quotes

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively is essential to the balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends.

The government is a machinery manned by human beings.

The attempt to treat politics as a branch of the profession of law [has] the disadvantage of refining issues to a point which no large society could comprehend.

When he ran a private company, one he owned, Trump could command all its constituent parts to do his bidding and make the rules himself. You'd think by his fourth year in the White House, he would have learned that the presidency doesn't work that way. But obviously he hasn't.

The most important detail separating the West from the East is the existence of administrators who are able to give up power. Former presidents, prime ministers and deputies must be reconciled to leaving power.

Even if we did achieve what we wanted with a very small state, we'd just be resetting the clock back to 1776, and it would roll forward exactly the same way again.

People assume that the executive branch has more power than it actually has. Only the legislative branch can create the laws; the executive branch cannot create the laws. So, if the executive branch tries to create a branch one side or the other... you go back to the founders of the nation. They set up a system that ensures that it doesn't happen.

Being from Arizona, the federal government is kind of a Slytherin.

As entrepreneurs, we sometimes do not understand the complexities of running a government.

Politics is a body contact sport.

As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply.

Judicial, Legislative and Executive departments ought to be commensurate

I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

I have not given up my faith in democracy - it remains the worst form of government except for all the others - but I have given up my youthful expectation that it would inevitably triumph.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

If some imaginative practical joker had been appointed by the malevolent gods to devise, for our sins, a system of municipal government, he would have invented something like what we have, though better.

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

There are two great antagonistic principles at the root of all government, stability and experiment. The former is Tory, and the latter is Whig.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.