Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

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

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

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 government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

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.

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

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

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

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

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.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

We are all the President’s men.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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.

It sure is hell to be president.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

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.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I love being in the United States Senate.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

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.

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.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Politics have no relation to morals.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

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

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.