The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

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

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

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

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

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.

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

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

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

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.

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

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Empire and liberty.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.