Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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.‘

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

How can we help President Obama?

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.