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.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

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

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, ‚Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?‘ And it’s like, yeah, honey, they do.

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.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

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.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

That government is best which governs least.

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.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

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.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don’t know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they’re developing what’s called ‚nuclear capability,‘ which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That’s not a crime.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Politics have no relation to morals.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.