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.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

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.

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

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

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

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

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

Every President wants to do right.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

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.

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.

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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

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

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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.

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.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

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.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

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

There are really two core principles at play here. There’s giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there’s keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We’re not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong 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.

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.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

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.

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

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.