Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

That government is best which governs least.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

I am such a political person.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

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

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

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.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

We are all the President’s men.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

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

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.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.