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.

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

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

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.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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

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

How can we help President Obama?

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

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

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

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.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

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.

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.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

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

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

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

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

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

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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