The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.
When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
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.
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.
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.
French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
