Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

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

I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

I think governments can’t do much.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

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.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

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.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

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

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.