The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

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

Every President wants to do right.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

The rules are there for a reason.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

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.

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.

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.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

The FBI should not be a political body.

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

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

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.

How can we help President Obama?

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

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.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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?

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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