The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.