It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

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.

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 all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

It’s against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

My three children have brought me great joy.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Big Brother is watching you.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

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.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I don’t want to be on the Internet.

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.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

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

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

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.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

I don’t follow politics much.