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.
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.
The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.
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.
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.
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.
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
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.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.
