Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

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.

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

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

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

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.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

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

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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.

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

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.

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.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

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

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.