We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
Narendra ModiWhat do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.
Barack ObamaAll I’m for is the liberty of the individual.
John WayneAnyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas AdamsIf… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
Margaret ThatcherIt is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
Mark TwainDemocracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard ShawI can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Jimmy CarterI am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
Madeleine AlbrightThe American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry KissingerGod grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘
Benjamin FranklinIt’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.
Jordan PetersonWhen there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert HooverA bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Harry S. TrumanStates are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
PlatoI 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.‘
Ruth Bader GinsburgBiography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar WildeGovernment does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald ReaganThere is no gambling like politics.
Benjamin DisraeliThe government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.
Narendra ModiWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham LincolnAll genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
George Bernard ShawWe never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William JamesBut what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund BurkeBe thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.
Will RogersNo one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
Terry PratchettLiberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will RogersBehind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore RooseveltThe secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.
Jim MattisNothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Ho Chi MinhWhy has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Alexander HamiltonFreedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand RussellAnd I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James MadisonWe here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham LincolnI think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
Barack ObamaWe have the best government that money can buy.
Mark TwainThe point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Abraham LincolnI’m not a macroeconomics person.
Bill GatesIf liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
AristotlePresident Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.
Colin PowellIn doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEvery decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. MenckenThe 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.
Noam ChomskyIt is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur SchopenhauerConstitutions 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.
Alexander HamiltonWorth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
Samuel JohnsonThe punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
PlatoPolicy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.
Jim MattisEvery fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas JeffersonThere are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.
Bill GatesI 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.
John KennedyIf you judge, investigate.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.
Margaret ThatcherI believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. MenckenTaxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Terry PratchettI 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.
Warren BuffettYou have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
Bill GatesThe IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
Jerry Seinfeld