Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

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

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

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

We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.

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

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Finality is not the language of politics.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

In every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

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

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

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

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.