We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

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

To lead people walk behind them.

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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.

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.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

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

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

I am such a political person.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

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.