Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.
All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
There does seem to be in the U.S. now an ideology and an entrenchment that has stopped people doing what they are hired to do, which is govern rather than run for office the whole time.
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.
Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law.
I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.
Maintaining a fair and accessible justice system should at all times be the overarching concern of Government
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
