I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.
The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.
All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.
I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.
I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.
If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
