There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

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.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

I am such a political person.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

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.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

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.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

We are all the President’s men.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

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

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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.

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.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

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.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

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!

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

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.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.