That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

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

Empire and liberty.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

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

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

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.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

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

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

I supported Donald Trump.

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.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.