I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

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

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

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

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

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it’s going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you’ll never see it.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

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

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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 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.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

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

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

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.

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

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

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

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

I love big business!

It sure is hell to be president.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

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

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

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.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

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

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

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

How can we help President Obama?

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

And 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.

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.

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.