"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
― John Updike
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Government
More From John Updike
- "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
- "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
- "A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
More In Government
- "World War II was the last government program that really worked."― George Will
- "The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead – everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real."― Bruce Jackson
- "Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many."― Maggie Kuhn