"Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.”

“When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal.”

“The Russians can't change us or significantly weaken us. They are a smaller country. They are a weaker country. Their economy doesn't produce anything that anybody wants to buy, except oil and gas and arms. They don't innovate. But they can impact us if we lose track of who we are.”

“There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.”

“The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.”

“But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.”

“The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.”

“Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.”

“Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.”