Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.
My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.
Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.
My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.
Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.
Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
