I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.
I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.
There are photographers who don't really engage with their subject. It's a really unfortunate phrase, but they take their photo and they leave with it. It works but I think it ultimately limits how profound the work can be.
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
Americans are self-reliant—on the government.
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
Governments don't control people like they used to.
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
I need to work outside government, on my own.
I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament.