“You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.”– Rob McKenna Related Quotes “The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.”– Jon Meacham “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 “People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. … Being in Parliament used to be something when I was young, but it won’t make a make a gentleman now-a-days. It seems to me that none but brewers, and tallow-chandlers, and lawyers go into Parliament now.”— Anthony Trollope