There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I think America has always been polarized.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.