We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

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.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Every President wants to do right.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

Empire and liberty.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

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

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

People love conspiracy theories.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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.

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.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Well begun is half done.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

A jug fills drop by drop.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

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.

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

We’re running the company to serve more people.

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.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

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.‘

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

I don’t follow politics much.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.