There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

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

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

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.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

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

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

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

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

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.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

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

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

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

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

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

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

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

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.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.