I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
