The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.
What did Republicans get for 16 days of a government shutdown with people being hurt? We have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than a damaged brand.
Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.
Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.
I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
There is no greater example of government overreach and unrestrained liberalism than 'Obamacare.' It is so deeply flawed and such a clear and present threat to our economic stability that there is no way to fix it.
Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.
The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
