The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

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

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

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

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

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.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

How can we help President Obama?

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

That government is best which governs least.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

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.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

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.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

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.

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.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

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

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Democracy passes into despotism.

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

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.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

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.