“The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.” ProblemGovernmentChallengesIraqPresidentialCandidatesHealthcareOfferingAmerican PoliticsPrescriptionsPresidential Candidate Author:Larry Sabato
“A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.” ShouldGovernmentPresidentialDecentExaminationManly Author:William Henry Harrison
“Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other.” MayStatesGovernmentOpinionTeachingExerciseOfficeConstitutionAssumingPresidentialAppropriateFederal GovernmentPublic Opinion Author:James K. Polk
“Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.” MenMadeStatesDoneGovernmentCoursesClearWeekPrisonInsanePresidentialReportsBonfire Author:Will Rogers
“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.” MayTwoGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsPayMillionsDollarsCampaignsPresidentialMillion DollarsMetamorphosisPresidential Campaign Author:John W. Gardner
“When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.” ThinkingGovernmentCarePoliticalTalkingPerspectiveCapacityElectionObviousSpendingTinyPresidentialCandidatesFundRelativeFractionsPresidential CandidatePolitical Election Author:Lawrence Lessig
“The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.” Has BeensGovernmentPoliticalLyingRealizingLeaderWiseGrowingChildhoodVoteIncreaseElectionIndependenceTendenciesPresidentialVotersProvenPolitical LeadersPresidential Election Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt