Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.
You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.
No one can reasonably deny that Medicare is headed for insolvency, and that Medicare's insolvency, if not rectified, will lead to the federal government's insolvency.
If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.
I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.