There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.
I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.
We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.
Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.
It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.
It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
