Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

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.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

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

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

How can we help President Obama?

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

Trump has no sense of shame.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

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.

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

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

We live in a bewildering world.

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.