No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

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

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.

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 bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

We are all the President’s men.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

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.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

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

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

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.‘

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

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.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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

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

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

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.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

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?

Every President wants to do right.

That government is best which governs least.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

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

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

I am such a political person.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

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.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

How can we help President Obama?

Politics have no relation to morals.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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.‘

The military can buy our diplomats some time.