I call upon the scientific community in our country those who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves even if it means chaos and confusion.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online putting legislation online.

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government and that means making some tough choices tightening our belts.

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

In a very weak economy when you say 'cut government spending ' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.