At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.
We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
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.
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.
So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.
