The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

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

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

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

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

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

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

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

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

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

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

It sure is hell to be president.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

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.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

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?‘

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

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

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

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.