When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I love driving my car on any highway.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

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

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

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

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

There’s backlash about everything I do.

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

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

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.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

I am such a political person.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

Paris ain’t much of a town.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

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

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.

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.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.