It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.