A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

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.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

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.‘

Empire and liberty.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

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?

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.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

We 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.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I don’t follow politics much.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

People do not make wars; governments do.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

Every President wants to do right.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

I love being in the United States Senate.

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

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

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

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.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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.

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.

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

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.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

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.