People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.
We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.
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.
The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.
I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.
We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.
Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.
It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
