Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

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.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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.

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

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.

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 income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

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.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

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

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

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.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

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

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Competition is a sin.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.