Government and Politics of El Salvador
- Main article: Government of El Salvador and Politics of El Salvador
- Form of government: presidential representative democratic republic
- Capital of El Salvador: San Salvador
- Elections in El Salvador
- Political parties in El Salvador
Read more about this topic: Outline Of El Salvador
Famous quotes containing the words government and, government and/or politics:
“I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The United States is the only great nation whose government is operated without a budget. The fact is to be the more striking when it is considered that budgets and budget procedures are the outgrowth of democratic doctrines and have an important part in developing the modern constitutional rights.... The constitutional purpose of a budget is to make government responsive to public opinion and responsible for its acts.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)