Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies people think they aren't important.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament we could be giving more power back to people at local government level through local referendums.

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.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil that there must be opposition between its various branches and between political parties for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

Power without principle is barren but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government and I will lead it as a party of government.

What the world needs is a small compact flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power at a price that nobody except a government can afford.