Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.
When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.
