As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

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.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

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

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

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.

That government is best which governs least.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

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

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Let me tell you something about Tunechi – about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grind as if he doesn’t have a dollar in his pocket.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

I’ve worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

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.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

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.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor’s races, is it’s all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that – in that district or that state is.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

I think governments can’t do much.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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.

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.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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

The coward only threatens when he is safe.