The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.
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.
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.
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.
We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
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.
