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

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

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

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

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

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

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.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

Children are all foreigners.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

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.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

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.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

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.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

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

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.