Domestic Governance Quotes

In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the States, constituting this great and glorious Union. To the rest of the world, we are one. Neither State nor State government is known beyond our borders. Within, it is different.

We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

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

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.

If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.

Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics.