Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

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.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Solutions are not the answer.

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

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

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

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

How can we help President Obama?

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

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

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

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.

My business is to prevent the future.

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

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Dissents speak to a future age.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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

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

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

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 believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

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

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Empire and liberty.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.