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.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I think it’s important to vote.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

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.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

‚Getting smart on crime‘ does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

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.

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.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been ‚lost‘ or stolen.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

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).

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.