To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

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.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

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

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

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

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

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

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

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.

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.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

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.

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

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

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

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

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.

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 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).

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

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

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

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

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

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

I let the American people down.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.