It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

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.

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.

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

Democracy passes into despotism.

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

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

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.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

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.

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.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

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

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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

When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

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.

We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

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.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.