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

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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

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

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

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

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 do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

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.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

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

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

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

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‚Citizens United.‘ 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.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

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.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

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.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

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

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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.

Finality is not the language of politics.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

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

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.