I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

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.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

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.

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?

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.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

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

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

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.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

My business is to prevent the future.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

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

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

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.