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

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

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

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.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

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.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

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.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

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.‘

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.