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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

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

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

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

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

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

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.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

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?

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

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

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

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

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

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.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

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.

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).

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.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

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.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

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

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.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

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.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

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