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

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

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

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

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

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.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

I think it’s important to vote.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

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.

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

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.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

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.

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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

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.

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.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Democracy passes into despotism.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.