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.

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.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

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

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

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

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

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

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.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

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

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

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!

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

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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.

That government is best which governs least.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

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

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

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

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.