There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Charles de Secondat
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
Wendell Phillips
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
Robert Orben
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
Chris Rock
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