In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

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.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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.

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

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.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

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.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

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.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

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!

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.

There isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.