While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration... can very seriously injure the government

Many challenges need to be responded to: the emergence of multiparty coalitions as a regular form of government that need to rapidly evolve as a stable, two-party system.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.