What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

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

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

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

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

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

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.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

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

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

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.

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

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.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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

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

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

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

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

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

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

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.