I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

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.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

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.

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

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

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

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.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Empire and liberty.

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

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

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

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

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

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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

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.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

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.

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

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

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.