The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

There's never been a nation like the United States ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents principles that recognize that our rights come from God not from our government.

It was settled by the Constitution the laws and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States they are going to own it.

In the late 1990s some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror namely massive atrocities 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States millions of refugees tens of thousands of people killed hideous repression that's international terror and we can go on and on.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria you've got to be prepared as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to become the government and I'm not sure any country either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else who's willing to take on that responsibility.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

A little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.