Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments or some other kind of arrangement is quite frankly secondary in my opinion.

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government lower taxes and more choices for individuals even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us even if it costs more to minimize risk.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature a type nowhere at present existing.

In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.