The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I don’t write policy for my government.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

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.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

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

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

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

Every President wants to do right.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

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.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

How can a president not be an actor?

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.