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

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

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

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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

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

People do not make wars; governments do.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

We are all the President’s men.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

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

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

That’s the one for my tombstone… Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

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.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

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.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

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 least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

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.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.