Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.
