You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

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

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

Africa will thrive.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

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.

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

Democracy passes into despotism.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.