I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.
As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.
You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.
Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.
The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.
Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.
It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina.
Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.
Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.
The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it.
While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
