If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

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

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

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.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

I think governments can’t do much.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Empire and liberty.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

There are some loony people in this world!

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.