Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse,...
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
