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.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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

America is just downright mean.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

We live in ugly times.

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.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

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

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?