I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.
Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.
Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.
Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.
The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government.
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.
In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed - my job here will be done.
We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.
If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.
The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.
The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.