Better a small fire that warms you than a big one that burns you.
Better to have a diamond with a few small flaws than a rock that is perfect.
The mosquito is small -- but when he sings, your ears are full of him.
Men who watch their fortune grow find their houses too small.
If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.
There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.
We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
The best government is that which governs least.
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.
There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.
'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.
My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
