I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
the holy art of “giving for Jesus’ sake” ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all state relief for the poor is a blot on the honor of your savior. The fact that the government needs a safety net to cat...
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. (A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)
If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'co...
